cotylophorous 
cotylophorous (kot-i-lol"o-rus),. [< NL. rnly- 
lophornx, < t ir. mriibl, a hollow, a cup ; a socket 
(see cotyle), + -jo/mf, -bearing, < jtpttv = K. 
bear 1 .] Having a cotyledonary placenta, as a 
ruminant ; specifically, of or pertaining to the 
<'<>ti/li>liliiirn. Also ,;ili//i,/iriii/s. 
COUa (ko'ii), H. [F., from the native S. Amer. 
name.] 1. An American cuckoo of the genus 
<'<(//-.< or subfamily Ooeogtintt.9. [''"/') 
[NL.] A genus of Madagascau cuckoos, typical 
of the subfamily I'tiutim: 
couardt, . An obsolete form of coicard. 
coucal (kii'kal), . [Mentioned prob. for the 
lii-st time in LeVaillaut'H "(liseaiix d'Afrlqne," 
lieginniiiKaliout 17!H>; perhaps native African.] 
An African or Indian spur-heeled cuckoo: a 
name first definitely applied by Cuvier in 1817 
to the birds of the genus Criitropug (Illiger). 
COUCh 1 (kouch), r. [< ME. couclien, lay, place, 
set, ivil. lay one's self down, intr. lie down, 
< OF. eoueMT, <-<nn-lii< r. colcher, F. coucher = 
Pr. colcar, colgar = It. colcare, collocare, lay, 
place, < L. collocare, place together, < com-, to- 
gether, + locarc, place, < locus, a place : see lo- 
cus, locate, and cf. collocate.'] I. trans. 1. To 
lay down or away; put in a resting-place or in 
itory of any ki 
chaic.] 
a repository of any kind ; place ; deposit. [Ar- 
Sacriflse solemne, besoght at that tyme, . . . 
And the carcas full clanly kowchit on theailter. 
Deduction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11789. 
It Is at this day in use, In Uaza, to couch potsherds, or 
vessels of earth, in their walls, to gather the wind from 
the top. and pass it down In spouts into rooms. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 776. 
Can reason couch itself within that frame? 
Shirley, The Traitor, I. 2. 
The waters tmuh themselves, as close as may be, to the 
centre of this globe in a spherical convexity. 
T. Uurnet, Theory of the Earth. 
Specifically 2. To cause to recline or lie upon 
a bed or other place of rest ; dispose or place 
upon, or as upon, a couch or bed. 
Where unbrulaed youth, with unstutf'd brain, 
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. 
Shak., R. and J., II. S. 
3. In brewing, to spread out upon a floor, as 
steeped barley, in order to promote germina- 
tion. 4. In paper-making, to take (a sheet of 
pulp) from the mold or apron on which it has 
been formed, and place it upon a felt. 5f. To 
lay together closely. 
Workc wel knit and cottched togither. 
Komenelator (1585). 
6f. To cause to hide or seek concealment; 
cause to lie close or crouch. 
A falcon towering in the skies 
Couchcth the fowl below with his wings' shade. 
Shak., Lucrcce, 1. 507. 
7. To include in the meaning of a word or state- 
ment; express: put in words; especially, to 
imply without distinctly stating ; cover or con- 
ceal by the manner of stating : often, in the lat- 
ter sense, with under : as, the compliment was 
couched in the most fitting terms ; a threat was 
couched under Ms apparently friendly words. 
Speech by meeter is a kind of vtterance, more cleanly 
couched and more delicate to the eare than prose is. 
PtMenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 5. 
Ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., lii. 1. 
There Is scarcely a garden in China which does not con- 
tain some flne moral, couched under the general design. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xsxi. 
1297 
Hl cooto-armure was of cloth of Tars, 
Cowhed with perles whyte and roimde and gret*. 
i l,,iurer, Knlghfl Tale (ed. Morris), 1. 1303. 
Couched harp, th<- spinet. 
II. in trim*. 1. To lie in a place of rest or 
deposit; rest in a natural bed or stratum. 
[Archaic.] 
Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the ... dew, and 
for the .I. ! tint! ,,"./,. fA beneath. Dent, xxxlll. 13. 
2. To lie on a couch, bed, or place of repose; 
lie down ; take a recumbent posture. 
Madam, if he had couched with the lamb, 
He had no doubt lieen stirring with the lark. 
B. Jonton, Tale of a Tub, L 4. 
When Love's fair goddess 
Couched with her husband in his golden bed. 
Dryden. 
3. To lie as in ambush ; be hidden or conceal- 
ed ; lie close ; crouch. 
We'll couch i' the castle-ditch, till we see the light of our 
fairies. Shak., M. W. of W., v. 2. 
I saw a bright green snake, . . . 
Green as the herbs In which it couched, 
Close by the dove's its head it crouched. 
Calerid'je, Christabel, li. 
4. To lie down, crouch, or squat, as an animal. 
Fierce tigers couched around. Dryden. 
The chase neglected, and his hound 
Couch'd beside him on the ground. 
St. Arnold, Tristram and Iseult. 
6. To bend or stoop, as under a burden. 
An aged Squire . . . 
That seemed to couch under his shield three-square, 
As if that age badd him that burden spare. 
Spetaer, F. Q., III. i. 4. 
Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two bur- 
dens. Gen- xlix. 14. 
couching 
writers confine cuuclnini :m.l iinfiiinni, and give the term 
irjant to the beast lying down ilh In ad raised ; but this 
is rare. Also Itartunxl an-l 
His crest was covered with a eouchanl Hownd. 
r.f.q iu.li.25. 
Levant and couchant, in /w, rising up and lying down: 
applied to Keastn, and Illili'-atiui: I hut the) have lvn long 
.noiiK-li "N UTI.I not In-longing to their owner to lie down 
nn.i rise up t<. l> rd or lor ,i ,lriy und night at li-iist. 
COUCh6 (ko-sha'), a. FF., pp. of coucher, lie 
down: see coucA 1 , '.] In her., partly lying 
down ; not erect : said of a shield used as an 
escutcheon, as in a seal or the like, when the 
shield is generally represented hung up by the 
-mister corner. 
couched (kpucht), p. a. [Pp. of couchi, v.] 1. 
In her., lying on its side, as a 
chevron represented as issuant 
from either side of the escutch- 
eon. 2. In embroidery. See 
5. 
Two Chevrons 
Couched. 
VSUVsAl(f^ I i \*W*****WI \ - /t 
[F. couchee, prop. fern, of couche, 
pp. of coucher, lie down: see 
conch 1 , t?.] Bedtime ; hence, a 
reception of visitors about bedtime: opposed 
to levee. 
The duke's levees and couchea were to crowded that 
the antechambers were full. 
Bp. liurnet. Hist. Own Times, an. 16S4. 
None o( her sylvan subject* made their court ; 
Levees and couchee* pass'd without resort. 
Drydnt, Hind and Panther, L 576. 
Baby Charles and Steenie, you will remain till our cm- 
chee. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, xxxllL 
coticher 1 (kou'cher), n. [< ME. coucheour (def. 
1), cochoure, appar. for 'couchoure (def. 2).] If. 
6. In embroidery, to lay the thread on the sur- A couch-maker or -coverer. 
face of the foundation and secure it by stitches 
of fine material. See couching*, 5. 
COUCh 1 (kouch), n. [< ME. couche, coicche, lair, 
< OF. couche, colche, F. couche = Pr. colga, a bed, 
couch ; from the verb.] 1. A bed ; a place for 
sleep or rest. 
O thou dull god [Sleep], why llest thou with the vile, 
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch > 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1. 
Carpeutours, cotelers, coucheour fyn. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1597. 
2f. An incubus. [The sense is uncertain.] 
He mayketh me to swell, both flesh and veyne, 
And kepith me low lyke a cochoure. 
Political POCIIU, etc. (ed. Knrnivall), p. 217. 
Approach thy grave 
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
3f. A setter dog. E. Phillips, 1706. 4. Inpa- 
per-making, one who couches the sheets of pulp, 
or transfers them from the apron to the felt. 
Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 225. 5. One who couches 
A^^^iK^-io-p^a, s , toiiiiii c ^$> ou , ch , r)i . ruit. < ML. collecta. 
ti.n*ssB 
which one can rest at full length; a lounge. PP- * ^ collect: * - < '^^ 
^bo'nTiay 1 * '" "* ' who resides in a fountry for traffic. 
Rolling on their purple couchet in their tender effeminacy. COUChei'H (kou'cher), . [Ult. < ML. collecta- 
Tennynon, Boadicea. n ' UW | ( book of collects : see collcctarium.] t>c- 
cles. : (a) A book of collects or short prayers. 
The ancient service books, . . . the Antiphoners, Mis- 
sals, Orailes, Processionals, Manuals, Legends, Pics, Por- 
tuises, Primers, Couchen, Journals, Ordinals, and all 
other books whatsoever, In Latin or English, written or 
printed. K. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvl. 
(6) A book or register in which the particular 
3. Any place for retirement and repose, as the 
lair of a wild beast, etc. 
The beasts that ronne astraye, seketh their accustomed 
couchet. Bp. Bale, Pref. to Leland's Journey, slg. D, 2. 
Beast and bird, 
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, 
Were slunk. Milton, P. L., iv. 601. 
acts of a corporation or a religious house were 
set down. 
A bedfellow; 
His [the otter's) couch, which is generally a hole com 
munlcating with the river. Encyc. Brit., XII. 396. 
4. The frame on which barley is spread to be couch-fellow (kouch'fel'6), n. 
malted. 5. A layer, coating, or stratum. Spe- a companion in lodging. [Rare.] 
citically (<i) In maltinri, a heap of steeped barley spread cOUCh-gTaSS (kouch ' gras), n. [Also COOCh-, 
out on a floor to allow germination to take place, and so cu i c h-arass a corruption of quitch-grass: see 
convert the grain into malt. (6) In paint inffimdplding, a ,-', . Tfa o <,! na me of friticum re- 
MS2Sa?^^^SW& P, a species Tg>ass which infests arable 
painted or gilded, (c) In the induttrial art, a bed or layer land as a troublesome weed. It Is perennial, and 
of any material, as one thickness of leather where several propagated both by seed and by its creeping nuModt, 
thicknesses are 'superimposed, as in bookbinding and the 
like. 
Tothiscommimication Perth proposed an answer couched C0 nch 2 (kouch), n. [Short for couch-grass, q. V.] 
in the most servile terms. Macaulay, Hisl Eng., vi. c ou ch_g rag8 . 
8. To lower (a spear) to a horizontal position; C0 uch- (kouch), v. t. [< couch*, n.] In agri., 
place (a spear) under the right armpit and t o clear, as land, from couch-grass, 
grasp (it) with the right hand, thus presenting couchancy (kou'chan-si), n. [< couchant.] The 
the point toward the enemy. The use of the act or state of couch' ing or lying down. [Bare.] 
rest was of late introduction, and was not essen- couchant (kou'chant), a. [< F. couchant, ppr, 
tial to the couching of a spear. 
His mighty spcare he couched warily. 
Spetuer, F. Q., III. vii. 38. 
And as I placed in rest my spear 
ily hand so shook for very fear, 
I scarce could couch it ripht. 
Scott, Marmion, iv. 20. 
Then in the lists were couched the pointless spears. 
William Morri*, Earthly Paradise, III. 217. 
9. In loirfl., to remove (a cataract) by insert- 
ing a needle through the coats of the eye and 
pushing the IPUS downward to the bottom of 
the vitreous humor, so as to be out of the axis 
of vision ; remove a cataract from in this man- 
ner. See cataract, 3. 
Sinnr ;nti-t. whose Hire hand 
Ctotth ifln i-at:ii-jcts, and clears his sight. Dnmus. 
10t. To inlay; trim; adorn. 
82 
ot Toucher] lie down: see couchl, c .] 1. Lying 
down ; crouching ; not erect. 
He that like a subtle beast 
Lay couchant, with hl eyes upon the throne, 
Ready to spring. Tennyton, Guinevere. 
And cmu-hant under the brows of maaslve line, 
The eyes, like guns beneath a parapet, 
Watched, charged with lightnings. 
LouxU, On Board the 76. 
2. Sleeping in a place ; staying. 
^ -r The . . farme of husbandrie where 
this officer is riiiu-hant and abiding. 
Willinl*. l>ict. (<!. 1608), p. 77. 
3. In her., lying down with the 
head raised, which distinguishes 
the posture of couchant from that 
of dormant, or sleeping : applied 
to a lion or other beast, some 
A Lion Couchant. 
which is long and jointed. It spreads over a field with 
great rapidity, and, because of its tenacity of life, Is eradi- 
cated with difficulty. The root contains sugar, and has 
been used as a diuretic. 
2. The stolouiferous variety of fionn, Agros- 
tis alba. Black couch-grass. Same as black bent, 
Alopmmu affrettu. 
louching 1 (kou'ching), n. [Verbal n. of couchi, 
r.] 1. The act of stooping or bowing. 
These couching* and these lowly courtesies. 
Shak., J. C., HI. 1. 
2. In surg., an operation in cases of cataract, 
consisting in the removal of the opaque crys- 
talline lens out of the axis of vision by means 
of a needle : now rarely practised. 
Persuaded the king to submit to the then unusual oper- 
ation of couching, and succeeded in restoring sight to one 
of his eyea. Pretcott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 
3. In malting, the spreading of malt to dry af- 
tersteeping. See couch 1 , r. t., 3. 4. In paper- 
making, the removal of the flake of pulp from 
the mold on which it is formed to a felt. 8. 
A kind of embroidery in which silk, gold thr. -ml. 
or the like is laid upon the surface of the foun- 
dation instead of being drawn through it. In 
vlain couchinq the threads or cords are simply laid side 
by side, covering the whole width of the leaf, flower, 
