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lay upon a bed or other resting place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shak.

See Quitch grass.

State of lying down for repose. [R.]

Lying down with 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…

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.

Same as Couch.

of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince. [Obs.] Dryden. The duke's levees and couchees were so crowded that the antechambers were full. Bp. Burnet.

One who couches.

The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

Having no couch or bed.

Delivery in childbed

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

A midwife. [Recent] Dunglison.

A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy).

Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.

To retire again to a couch; to lie down again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

A support for the spear when couched for the attack. [Obs.] Chaucer.

bric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in…