Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French coucher, from Latin collocare to set in place; more at COLLOCATE
Pronunciation : 'kauch
Function : verb
Date : 14th century
1. long upholstered seat; bed, place for resting; animal's lair; board on which paper pulp is dried (Papermaking). recline; lower; ambush; express, put into words; transfer to a couch (Papermaking). couch\couch\ (kouch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. couched (koucht); p. pr. & vb. n. couching.] [f. coucher to lay down, lie down, of. colchier, fr. l. collocare to lay, put, place; col- + locare to place, fr. locus place. see:
locus.].
2. to lay upon a bed or other resting place. where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
3. to arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. the waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity. burnet.
4. to lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. it is at this day in use at gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
5. (paper making) to transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
6. to conceal; to include or involve darkly. there is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory.
7. to arrange; to place; to inlay. [obs.].
8. to put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. a well-couched invective. i had received a letter from flora couched in rather cool terms. mag.
9. (med.) to treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
10. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
11. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
12. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
13. To transfer from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
14. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
15. To arrange; to place; to inlay.
16. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; used with in and under.
17. To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
18. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
19. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
20. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
21. A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
22. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
23. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
24. A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc. a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer.
25. 1. A couch is a long, comfortable seat for two or three people. = sofa, settee.
26. A couch is a narrow bed which patients lie on while they are being examined or treated by a doctor.
27. If a statement is couched in a particular style of language, it is expressed in that style of language. The new centre-right government's radical objectives are often couched in moderate terms = phrase. be couched in sth to be expressed in a particular way.
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