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mall 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.

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

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.

on. This is a known rule in divinity, that there is no command that runs in negatives but couches under it a positive duty. South.

ke less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious. They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights. Shak. Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should be obscured. Shak. There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this.…

One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur.

to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd. Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together. Luke vi. 38.

lizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide. Hence sable coal his massy couch extends, And stars of gold the sparkling pyrite blends. E. Darwin.

ich it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.

To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.

be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, -- often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch. All being settled and reposed, the lord archibishop did present his majesty to the lords and commons. Fuller. After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue. Milton.

To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.

Made of rushes. Me rushy couch and frugal fare. Goldsmith.

To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.

field where he had spread his tent. Gen. xxxiii. 19. Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch. Byron.

A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa. Punching the squab of chairs and sofas. Dickens. On her large squab you find her spread. Pope.

to be a candidate for, as an office. -- To start up, to rise suddenly, as from a seat or couch; to come suddenly into notice or importance.

A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.