About The Word Couch
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What's The Definition Of Couch?
[n] a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment
[n] a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer [n] an upholstered seat for more than one person [v] formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" Synonyms | Synonyms for Couch: cast | frame | lounge | put | redact | sofa Related Terms | Find terms related to Couch: analysis | bear down | bed | bed down | bedstead | bring low | bunk | burrow | cave | conceive | couch in terms | covert | crawl | creep | crouch | curl up | debase | den | depress | depth interview | depth psychology | detrude | divan | doss | downbear | dream analysis | dream symbolism | earth | embed | embody in words | express | form | formularize | formulate | frame | give expression to | give words to | go to bed | go to rest | group analysis | grovel | gumshoe | gurney | haul down | hole | hug the earth | indent | interpretation of dreams | kip | lair | lay wait | let down | lie down | lie in wait | lie low | lie prone | lie prostrate | lie under | litter | lodge | loll | lounge | lower | lurk | mew | nightwalk | paragraph | phrase | present | press down | prone | prostrate | prowl | psychanalysis | psychoanalysis | psychoanalytic method | psychoanalytic therapy | psychognosis | psychognosy | psychology of depths | pull down | push down | pussyfoot | put | put in words | recline | reduce | repose | rest | rhetorize | run | set out | settee | settle | settle to rest | shadow | sink | skulk | slink | sneak | snug down | sofa | sprawl | squat | stalk | state | steal | stretcher | style | supinate | take down | take it easy | take life easy | tete-a-tete | the couch | the hay | the sack | thrust down | tiptoe | tunnel | underlie | vis-a-vis | word See Also | articulate | bed | convertible | daybed | divan | divan bed | flat coat | formulate | ground | love seat | phrase | primer | primer coat | priming | priming coat | seat | settee | sofa bed | squab | tete-a-tete | undercoat | vis-a-vis | word Couch In Webster's Dictionary \Couch\ (kouch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Couched} (koucht);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Couching}.] [F. coucher to lay down, lie
down, OF. colchier, fr. L. collocare to lay, put, place; col-
+ locare to place, fr. locus place. See {Locus}.]
1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does
couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
--Shak.
2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed
by the reflexive pronoun.
The waters couch themselves as may be to the center
of this globe, in a spherical convexity. --T.
Burnet.
3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch
potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
--Bacon.
4. (Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried
pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for
further drying.
5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
There is all this, and more, that lies naturally
couched under this allegory. --L'Estrange.
6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase;
-- used with in and under.
A well-couched invective. --Milton.
I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather
cool terms. --Blackw. Mag.
8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque
lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
{To couch a} {spear or lance}, to lower to the position of
attack; to place in rest.
He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And
spurred his steed to full career. --Sir W.
Scott.
{To couch malt}, to spread malt on a floor. --Mortimer.
\Couch\, v. i. 1. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie. Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in hand. --Shak. If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men. --Shak. 2. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly. We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies. --Shak. The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture. --I. Taylor. 3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch. [Obs.] An aged squire That seemed to couch under his shield three-square. --Spenser. \Couch\, n. [F. couche, OF. colche, culche, fr. colchier. See {Couch}, v. t. ] 1. A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge. Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch? --Shak. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant. 2. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc. 3. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt. 4. (Painting & Gilding) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc. |
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