meaning of couch
1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
4. To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
6. To arrange; to place; to inlay.
7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
8. To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
9. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
10. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
11. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc. ; to stoop; to crouch.
12. A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
13. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
14. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
15. A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
16. See Quitch grass.
17. a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment
Related Words
couch | couch grass | couch potato | couchancy | couchant | couche | couched | couchee | coucher | couchette | couching | couchless |
