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ng down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. To couch a spear or lance, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest. He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career. Sir W. Scott. To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. Mortimer.…

Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien. So spake the Son, and into terror changed His countenance. Milton.

Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist. "An arrant counterfeit rascal." Shak.

One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses. Counterfeiters of devotion. Sherwood.

Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.

Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude. As being one who took no pride, And was a deal too countrified. Lloyd.

To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic. Lamb.

wo persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.

on which a court sits to administer justice. -- Court dress, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. -- Court fool, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. -- Court guide, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. -- C…

A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.

produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

To be crazed, or to act or appear as She would weep and he would craze. Keats.

To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak.

Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowis." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau & Fl.

Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. "Comate, crinite, caudate stars."

A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. A. Tucker.

ayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.