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Definition couch

Etymology 1

From Middle English couche, cowche, from Old French couche, from the verb (see below).

Noun

couch (plural couches)

1. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
2. A bed, a resting-place.
3. (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
4. (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.

Etymology 2

From Middle English couchen, borrowed from Old French se couchier (“go to bed”) (earlier form colchier), from Latin colloc? (“to place, to set in order, to assemble, to settle”), from com- (“together, with”) + loc? (“to put, to place, to set”). Doublet of collocate.

Verb

couch (third-person singular simple present couches, present participle couching, simple past and past participle couched)

1. To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
2. (archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
4. (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
5. (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
6. (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
7. (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
8. (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.
9. (paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
10. (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
11. To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

Etymology 3

From quitch, from Old English cwice.

Noun

couch (uncountable)

1. Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

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