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A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield.

all flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. A braver soldier never couched lance. Shak.

A kind of litter or portable couch.

A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.

Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

Sipping; touching lightly. [R.] Landor.

ssing heavily or hard upon; hence, having an easy graceful manner; delicate; as, a light touch; a light style of execution.

the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.

To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss. The bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass. Praed. A hand that kings Have lipped and trembled kissing. Shak.

on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants. To crouch in litter of your stable planks. Shak. Take off the litter from your kernel beds. Evelyn.

locate (the land granted by) a land warrant. That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. H. Spencer.

Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue. Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues. Dryden.

ures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

lay. Some malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne.

A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.

Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.

mmature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.