资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.]
   1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

            Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does
            couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. 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. --T.
                                                  Burnet.

   3. 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.
                                                  --Bacon.

   4. (Paper Making) 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.

            There is all this, and more, that lies naturally
            couched under this allegory.          --L'Estrange.

   6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase;
      -- used with in and under.

            A well-couched invective.             --Milton.

            I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather
            cool terms.                           --Blackw. Mag.

   8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque
      lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

   {To couch a} {spear or lance}, to lower to the position of
      attack; to place in rest.

            He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And
            spurred his steed to full career.     --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   {To couch malt}, to spread malt on a floor. --Mortimer.

Couching \Couch"ing\, n.
   1. (Med.) The operation of putting down or displacing the
      opaque lens in cataract.

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