Couch: English to English |
Couch (v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch. |
Couch (v. i.) To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly. |
Couch (v. i.) To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie. |
Couch (v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge. |
Couch (v. t.) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt. |
Couch (v. t.) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc. |
Couch (v. t.) Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc. |
Couch (v. t.) To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. |
Couch (v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay. |
Couch (v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly. |
Couch (v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. |
Couch (v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place. |
Couch (v. t.) To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. |
Couch (v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying. |
Couch (v. t.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. |