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A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [Written also cott.]

and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

g place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shak.

th 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 fe…

The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

s, to counterfeit the voice of another person. Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. Goldsmith.

To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

est, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. It cradles their fears to sleep. D. A. Clark.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs. Bp. Stillingfleet.

inging softly. The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. Dickens.

A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.

to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand. Crabb.

The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand. He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band,short cuffs, and a peaked beard. Arbuthnot.

keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon.

ished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.