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the whole plant periflies. The third fort requires a very 
fliady fituation, for, if it be expofed to the fun in fum- 
mer, the plants will foon decay. It is propagated by off- 
lets like the houfeleek, and requires a pretty ilrong foil. 
5,6, 7. If thefe forts be fown upon a wall, they will 
thrive better than in the ground, and be lels liable to 
fuffer by fro ft ; fo that where the feeds fcatter them- 
felves on walls or rock-work, the plants thrive better 
than when they are cultivated. SeeCRASSULA, Saxi- 
fraga, Sedum, Sempervivum, and Hydrocotyle. 
COTYLEDONOI'DES, f. in botany. SeeCRASSULA. 
COTYLAJ'US, a furname of rEfculapius, worfhipped 
on the borders of the Eurotas. His temple was raifed 
by Hercules. Paufanias. 
COTYT'TO, the goddefs of all debauchery, whofe 
feflivals, called Cotyttia, were celebrated by the Athe¬ 
nians, Corinthians, Thracians, &c. during the night. Her 
priefts were called Baptce, and nothing but wantonnefs 
prevailed at the celebration. A feltival of the fame 
name was obferved in Sicily, where the votaries of the 
goddefs carried about boughs hung with cakes and fruit, 
which it was lawful for any perfon to pluck off. It was 
a capital punifhment to reveal whatever was leen or done 
at thefe nightly feftivals, and it coif Eupolis his life for an 
unfeafonable reflection upon them. The goddefs Cotytto 
is fuppofed to be the fame as Proferpine. Herat. epod. 17. 
CO P'ZIO, or Cozzat, a town of Bofnia, on the river 
Dracia : 104 miles fouth-weft of Belgrade, and 108 fouth- 
ealf of Banjaluka. 
COU-CHAN, a town of Alia, in the kingdom of Co- 
- rea : eighty-five miles eaff-north-eaff of Ning-ki-tao. 
COU-CHI, a to\vn of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Ho-nan : thirty miles eaff-north-eaff of 
Kouang. 
COU-TCHENG, a town of Alia, in the kingdom of 
Corea : thirty-feven miles fouth-weft of Tfin-tcheou. 
COU-TCH 1 NG, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Pe-tche-li: fix leagues fouth-fouth- 
welf of King. 
COU-TCHING, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Co¬ 
rea: twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-eaff of Koang-tcheou. 
COU-TCHING-KEON, a fmall Chinele ifland. Lat. 
35 - 56 - N. Ion. 138. E. Ferro. 
COU-TIEN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Fo-kien: thirty-two miles fouth-fouth- 
eaff of Kien-nhing. 
COU-YANG, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Co¬ 
rea : five miles fouth-weft of Tfin-tcheou. 
CO'VA, a town of Portugal, in the province of Beira: 
three leagues north-ealf of Vifeu. 
COU'ANG-YANG, a town of Afia, in the kingdom 
of Corea: forty miles fouth-fouth-eaff of Koang-tcheou, 
To COUCH, v. n. \_couchcr, Fr.] To lie down on a 
place of repeie.'—If I court more women, you’ll couch 
with more men. Shakefpeare. 
When love’s fair goddefs 
douch'd with her hufband in his golden bed. Dryden. 
To lie down on the knees, as a beaft to reft: 
Trees bent their heads to hear him fing his wrongs. 
Fierce tygers couch'd around, and loll'd their fawning 
tongues. Dryden. 
To lie down in fecret, or in ambufh.—We’ll couch i’ th’ 
caflle-ditch, till we fee the light of our fairies. Shake¬ 
fpeare.- —To lie in abed, or ffratum.—Blelfed of the Lord 
be his land, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheph 
beneath. Dent, xxxiii. 13.—To ftoop, or bend down; to 
lower in fear, in pain, in refpebt.—Iffachar is a ffrong 
afs couching down between two burdens. Gcnefis , xlix. 14. 
Thefe coachings, and thefe lowly curtefies, 
Might ftir the blood of ordinary men. Shahcfpcare. 
To COUCH,, v. a. To repofe; to lay on a place of 
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Where unbruis’d youth, with unftuff’d brain, 
Doth couch his limbs, there golden fleep doth reign. 
Shakefpeare. 
To lay down any thing in a bed or ffratum.-—If the wea¬ 
ther be warm, we immediately couch malt about a foot 
thick ; but if a hotter feafon require it, we fpread it on 
the floor much thinner. Mortimer. —To bed ; to hide in 
another body.—It is. at this day in ufe at Gaza, to couch 
potfherds, or veffels of earth, in their walls, to gather 
the wind from the top, and to pafs it down in fpouts 
into rooms. Bacon. —To involve ; to include ; to c.om- 
prife.—That great argument for a future (late, which 
St. Paul hath couched in the words I have read to you. 
Atterbury. 
But who will call thofe noble, who deface, 
By meaner a£ts, the glories of their race; 
Whofe only title to their father’s fame 
Is couch'd in the dead letters of their name ? Dryden. 
To conclude fecretly ; to hide: with under. —The foun¬ 
dation of all parables, is fome analogy or limilitude be¬ 
tween the typical or allufive part of the parable, and the 
thing couched under it. South. —There is all this, and more, 
that lies naturally couched under this allegory. L' Ef range. 
—To lay clofe to another : 
And over all with brazen feales was arm’d. 
Like plated coat of fieel, fo couched near. 
That nought might pierce. Spenfer.. 
To fix the fpear in the reft, in the pofture of attack : 
Before each van 
Prick forth the aery knights,, and couch their fpears, 
Till thickeft legions clofe. Milton. 
To deprefs the condenfed cryftalline humour or film that 
fometimes overfpreads the pupil of the eye, and occa- 
fions blindnefs. This is improperly called couching the 
eye, for couching the cataraEl .- with equal impropriety they 
fometimes fpeak of couching the patient. —Whether the 
cataraCt be wafted by being feparated from its veffels, I 1 
have never known pofitively, by differing one that had' 
been couched. Sharp. 
Some artift, whofe nice hand 
Couches the cataracts, and clears his fight, 
And all at once a flood of glorious light 
Comes milling on his eyes. Dennis. 
COUCH, f. A feat of repofe, on which it is common- 
to lie down dreft'ed : 
O ye immortal pow’rs, that guard the juft, 
Watch round his couch , and foften his repofe! Addifon.. 
So Satan fell ; and ftraight a fiery globe 
Of angels on full fail of wing flew high, 
Who on their plumy vans receiv’d him loft 
From his uneafy ftation, and upbore, 
As on a floating couch, through the blithe air. Milton.. 
A bed ; a place of repofe : 
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be 
A couch for luxury and damned inceft. Shakefpeare.. 
Dire was the tolling, deep the groans! defpair 
Tended the lick, bulieft from couch to couch. Milton. 
A layer, or ftratum.—This heap is called by maltfters a 
couch, orbed, of raw malt. Mortimer. 
COU'CHA-HOTUN, a town of Afia, in the country 
of Thibet : ninety leagues weft-fouth-weft of Tourfan, 
Lat. 42. 52. N. Ion. 102. 10. E. Ferro. 
COUCHAHAR', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
road from Smyrna to Tocat. 
COU'CHANT, adj. [' couch'ant, Fr.] Lying down; 
fquatting. A term in heraldry.—Ifa lion were the coat 
of Judah, yet were it not probably a lion rampant, but. 
•rather couchant or dormant. Brown. 
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