Found 3 items, similar to Couch.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: couch
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: couch
couch
n 1: an upholstered seat for more than one person [syn:
sofa,
lounge]
2: a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer
3: a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or
psychoanalytic treatment
couch
v : formulate in a particular style or language;
“I wouldn't put
it that way”;
“She cast her request in very polite
language” [syn:
frame,
redact,
cast,
put]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Couch
Couch
\Couch\, v. i.
1. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of
rest; to repose; to lie.
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Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in
hand. --Shak.
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If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men.
--Shak.
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2. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to
be included or involved darkly.
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We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the
light of our fairies. --Shak.
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The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet
couch beneath the words of the Scripture. --I.
Taylor.
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3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to
stoop; to crouch. [Obs.]
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An aged squire
That seemed to couch under his shield three-square.
--Spenser.
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Couch
\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.]
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1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
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Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain,
Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
--Shak.
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2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed
by the reflexive pronoun.
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The waters couch themselves as may be to the center
of this globe, in a spherical convexity. --T.
Burnet.
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3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
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It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch
potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
--Bacon.
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4. (Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried
pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for
further drying.
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5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
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There is all this, and more, that lies naturally
couched under this allegory. --L'Estrange.
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6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase;
-- used with in and under.
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A well-couched invective. --Milton.
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I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather
cool terms. --Blackw. Mag.
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8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque
lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
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To couch a spear or
To couch a lance, to lower to the
position of attack; to place in rest.
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He stooped his head, and couched his spear,
And spurred his steed to full career. --Sir W.
Scott.
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To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. --Mortimer.
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Couch
\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.
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Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch?
--Shak.
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Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
--Bryant.
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2. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
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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.
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4. (Painting & Gilding) A preliminary layer, as of color,
size, etc.
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