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Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging. Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Rom. iv. 3.

The face; the features. In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. Shak.

Money; coin; -- used in contempt. [Obs.] To lock such rascal counters from his friends. Shak.

ver for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane. Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk. Sir T. North.

The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.

another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7.

The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. Shak.

to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. -- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.

to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory. The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland. Brougham.

way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.

wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson.

Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk. "That cowled churchman." Emerson.

To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.

Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts xix. 25. A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. B. Jonson. Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nation…

To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food. His path is one that eminently craves weary walking. Edmund Gurney.

A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.

The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. [Written also crenellation.]