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Couchant

Couchant Meaning & Definition
Couchant Definition And Meaning

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Related Terms | Find terms related to Couchant: accumbent | couche | crawling | crouched | debased | decumbent | depressed | draped | flat | groveling | knee-high | knocked flat | laid low | lolling | lounging | low | low-built | low-hung | low-level | low-leveled | low-lying | low-set | low-statured | lying | neap | procumbent | prone | prostrate | reclining | recumbent | reposing | resupine | runty | short | sprawled | sprawling | spread | squat | squatty | stooped | stumpy | supine | unelevated

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Couchant In Webster's Dictionary

\Couch"ant\ (kouch"ant), a. [F., p. pr. of coucher. See {Couch}, v. t.] 1. Lying down with head erect; squatting. 2. (Her.) Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast. {Couchant and levant} (Law), rising up and lying down; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. --Blackstone.

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