English Dictionary

couch

/kaʊt͡ʃ/

verb

To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose). / To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

I love to couch on the weekends.

意味（1）

To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).

Why did you ſo, doth not the Gentleman / Deſerue as full as fortunate a bed, / As euer Beatrice ſhall couch upon?

意味（2）

To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

At laſt, as thro an open Plain they yode, / They ſpy'd a Knight, that towards pricked fair, / And him beſide an aged Squire there rode, / That ſeem'd to couch under his Shield three-ſquare, / As if that Age bad him that Burden ſpare, / And yield it thoſe that ſtouter could it wield: […]

意味（3）

(transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.

But where vnbruſed youth with vnſtuft braine / Doth couch his lims, there, golden ſleepe doth raigne; […]

意味（4）

(transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.

[T]he Sea and the Land make one Globe, and the waters couch themſelves, as cloſe as may be, to the Center of this Globe in a Spherical convexity; ſo that if all the Mountains and Hills were ſcal'd, and the Earth made even, the Waters would not overflow its ſmooth ſurface; […]

意味（5）

(transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

It is, at this Day, in uſe, in Gaza, to couch Pot-Sheards or Veſſels of Earth, in their Walls, to gather the Wind from the top, and to paſſe it downe in Spouts into Roomes. It is a Device for Freſhneſſe, in great Heats; […]

意味（6）

(transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.

And fairly couching his ſteel-headed Spear, / Him firſt ſaluted with a ſturdy Stroke: / It booted nought Sir Guyon, coming near, / To think ſuch hideous Puiſſance on foot to bear.

意味（7）

(ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.

[…] A Man having a Cataract in both Eyes, which intirely deprived him of Sight, committed himſelf to an Oculiſt, who finding them ripe, performed the Operation, and couched the Cataracts with all the Succeſs could be deſired; but after they were couched, he could not ſee objects diſtinctly, even at an ordinary Diſtance, without the Help of a very convex Lens; which is what every body has obſerved to be neceſſary to all thoſe who have had a Cataract couched: […].

意味（8）

(paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.

He invented the grooved wood roll or mandrel on which the thin film of wet paper, as couched from the cylinder mould, was wound and thus the sheet built up to the required thickness, when it was cut from the roll or mandrel along the groove and peeled off to be air dried and sheet calendered.

意味（9）

(sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.

These curtains we couched in white cord with quaint designs.

意味（10）

To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

He couched it as a request, but it was an order.

意味（11）

(archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.

Come, come: wee'll couch i'th Caſtle-ditch, till we ſee the light of our Fairies.