couch (1), couche, cowche

[O. Fr. colche, couche.] [COUCH (1), v.] IMG:content-1092.png:[blocks in formation] (1) A layer or coat of paint or varnish on the canvas or panel intended to be painted on. (2) Acoat of gold or silver-leaf on any surface intended to be gilded or silvered over. 4. Arch .: A course or layer of sand. (Crabb.) *couch-fellow, s. A bed-fellow; a very close and intimate companion. couch (2), witch, twitch, quitch, quich, quick, s . & a. [Eng. quick -living, from the difficulty of eradicating.] The same as COUCH-GRASS (q. v.). "Immediately after harvest couch lies near the surface."-J. Wright on, in Ca ell's Technical Educator, vol, ii., p. 331. couch-ant, a. [Fr., pr. par. of coucher.] *A. Ordinary Language: I. Literally : 1. Lying down in repose; reposing, squatting. "Why thus the milk-white doe is found Couchant beside that lonely mound." Words worth: White Doe of Rylstone , 1 2. Lying hid or in waiting. "Then as a tiger who by chance has spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play, Straight crouches close, then rising, changes oft His couchant watch, Milton: P. L., bk. iv. II. Fig .: Lying concealed; crouching, fearful. "Oh then when pious consuls bore the sway! When couchant vice all pale and trembling lay!" Dryden: Juvenal , sat. 11. B. Her .: Applied to animals represented as lying down, but having the head raised. Levant and couchant ( lit. , rising up and lying down). An epithet applied to animals which have been on the land of another long enough to lie down and rise up again: such time being held to include a day and a IMG:content-1093.png:[blocks in formation] qu = kw. (1) One who couches or lies hid; a croucher. (2) A jeweler or setter of jewels. "Car pen tours, cotelers, couche ours fyn." Destruct. of Troy , 1,597. IMG:content-1094.png:[blocks in formation] *cou-fle, s . [A. S. ceofl ; Lat. corbis.] A basket. "In lepes and in coufles ."- Rob . of Glouc ., p. 265. côu gạr, côu-gu-ar, côu-gôu-ar, s. 2. Veterinary: Also called the husk; a disease incident to young bullocks when their windpipes are choked with tape-worms. B. As adj .: Pertaining to cough; designed for use in cough, . cough-wort, s. ( Culpepper .) IMG:content-1095.png:[blocks in formation] côu-li e', s . [Fr., from couler = to flow.] [CUL- LIS.] 1. Arch .: A grooved piece of timber. 2. Hydraulic Engin .: A pair of battens, or a groove in which a sluice-gate moves up and down. 3. Theater : A side-scene in a theater, or the space included between the side-scenes. côul-oir' (oir as wâr), s. [Fr. a strainer, from couler ; Lat. colo =to flow, to strain.] Hydraulic Engin .: A dredging-machine used in coul-ter, †col-ter, *cul-ter, *col-tour, *coul- tre, *cul-tour, *cul-tre, s. [A. S. culter , from Lat. culter ; Ital. coltro ; O. Fr. coultre ; Fr. coutre .] An iron blade or knife inserted into the beam of a plow for the purpose of cutting the ground and facilitating the operation of the furrow-slice by the plowshare "Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coul . ters , and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads."-1 Sam . xiii. 21. Ornith.: A name given to the Puffin, Fratercula arctic a , from the shape of its heak. [PUFFIN.] cou-măr-am-Ine, s. [Eng. coumar ( in ), and -amine.] Chem.: C9H5(NH2) O2. An organic base prepared by the action of iron filings and acetic acid on nitro-coumarine. It crystallizes in orange needles insoluble jin ether, soluble in hot alcohol and in boiling water. It melts at 170°. It forms a crys talline salt with hydrochloric acid. IMG:content-1096.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1097.png:[ocr errors] he was immediately sworn in a Privy Council- lor and Lord Keeper." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xix. *2. An adviser. "With Antiphus, and Halitherses sage, His father's councillors , revered for age." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. xvii., 1. 80-1. II. Municipal : A dignitary in a municipality inferior to an alderman. Privy Councillor : [PRIVY.] *cō-un-der-stand-ing, s. [Pref. co con, and Eng. understanding (q. v.).] A joint or mutual understanding. of the art 'twixt the parties."- Howell : Lett ., ii. 71. *cō-ūne', v . t. [Pref. co con, and Lat. unus = one.] To make one, to unite closely. "[They] are in man one and couned together."- Fel- tham: Resolves, pt. i., Res. 95. *co-u-nite', v . t . [Pref.co= con , and Eng. unite (q. v.).] To join or unite closely together. More: Song of the Soul , I. 1. 39. *cō-u-nite', a. [CO-UNITE, v.] United or joined closely with another. IMG:content-1098.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A consultation, a meeting for the interchange of views. ". all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. Matt . xxvii. 1. 2. Advice, opinion given after deliberation or consultation; direction. "And even that day, at council board, Unapt to soothe his sovereign's mood, Against the war had Angus stood, And chafed his royal Lord." *3. A conversation, an argument, a discu ion. "The apostles *4. A deliberation or examination into events. "They all confe , therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used, reason followed, and a way observed."- Hooker . *5. The faculty or habit of deliberation; pru- dence, foresight, care. IMG:content-1099.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A meeting of a council; a council. council-chamber, s. The room or apartment in xii. 5. which a council meets. "The council - chamber for debate, And all the rest are rooms of state." IMG:content-1100.png:[blocks in formation] Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . II ., i. 1. A member of the Common 7. A secret; a private matter or opinion. "Thilke lord to whom no counseil may be hid." Gower , i. 9. †8. Confidence; a confidential position. "For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard his word?" -Jer . xxiii. 18. *9. A council (here confused with council , q. v.). "The counceil saide IMG:content-1101.png:[blocks in formation] "With such old counsellors they did advise."--- Waller . *4. A consul (q. v.). "Thilke dignitee that men clepith the emperie of con sulers ." Chaucer: Boethius , p. 54. II. Fig .: Anything from which one derives coun- sel, advice, or instruction; a monitor, a guide. "Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsel- lors." Ps. cxix. 24. coun-sěl-lõr-ship, s . The office or post of a counselor. side collectively. Queen's Counsel are barristers appointed counsel to the Crown by the Lord Chanto reckon, to compute (q. v.). take precedence of other barristers. They have the privilege of wearing a silk gown, IMG:content-1102.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1104.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1105.png:[blocks in formation] detent being lifted out of a notch, the hammer vibrates so long as the edge rests on the portion of in our day the hypothesis of Kant and Laplace the wheel between the notches. These spaces are sis, receives the independent countenance of spectrum analy. graduated in length, so as to allow the hammer to 159. ."-Tyndall: Fragments of Science (3d ed.), vii. make 1, 2, 3, ., vibrations up to 12, when it has completed a revolution and begins again. Seventy- eight blows are struck in a complete revolution. It is superseded in some clocks by the rack and snail, invented by Tompion. IMG:content-1106.png:[blocks in formation] In con ten a unce of clothyng comen disgised." Lang land: P. Plowman, B. prol. 26. 2. In England: The chief or head of a county. He exercised almost royal prerogatives within his own jurisdiction, held his own courts and appointed his own judges and officers. All writs and other legal proce es could only be i ued or enforced in his name. Three Counts Palatine existed in Eng--Darwin: Origin of Species (ed. 1859), ch. i., p. 26. land: the Duke of Lancaster, the Earl of Chester, is now vested in the sovereign; that of the second in and the Bishop of Durham. The dignity of the first the Prince of Wales for the time being, and that of the third is now attached to the Crown. [COUNTY, PALATINATE.] *3. German Empire : The name given to the rulers of two German or Bavarian states, known respect- ordinary busine of life; tradesmen keep their ac- counts by reckoning To compute is to come at the result by calculation historians and chronologists compute the times of particular events by comparing them with those of other known events To count is as much as to take account of, and when used as a mode of calcu- lati on it signifies the same as to reckon one by one; as to count one by one, to count the hours or min- utes These words are all employed in application to moral objects to denote the est i- mate which the word takes of things. To calcu- late is to look to future events and their probable to compute is to look to that IMG:content-1107.png:[blocks in formation] *count-a-ble, a. [Eng. count , and -able .] I. Literally : 1. Able or po ible to be counted or reckoned. 2. Accountable. "We are countable at the day of judgment."-Sander- son: Serm., ii. 49. coun-ten-ançe, * con-ten-ance, *con-ten- anse, *con-ten-aunce, *con-tin-aunce, *coun- ten-aunce, *coun-ten-aunse, *kun-ten-aunce, which is present and to set an estimate upon it, or to look to that which is future as something s. [O. Fr. conte nance, cuntenance; Sp.contenensa; IMG:content-1108.png:[blocks in formation] *5. To act suitably to, or in keeping with, any- "Malcolm! Banquo! As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites, To countenance this horror!" Shakesp.: Macbeth , ii. 3. 6. To grace, to honor. mistre ."-Shakesp.: Taming of Shrew, iv. 1. 1. Calmne or composure of look. "The two great maxims of any great man at court are, Fletch .: Honest Man's Fortune, iv. 1. IMG:content-1109.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1110.png:[blocks in formation] *6. A table or board on which money is counted; a money-changer's table. 7. A long narrow table or board on which goods are displayed, weighed, or measured. "It was not safe to exhibit such publications openly on a counter."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xvi. *8. A counting-house. "Ful fast his count our dore he schette." †II. Figuratively : Chaucer: C. T. , 14,496. 1. Anything by which a reckoning or calculation is or can be made. D. As substantive: 1148 1. Ship - building : That part of a ship's stern which overhangs the stern-post. The counter-timbers spring from the wing-transom, which extends Counter. A. Hull of a Ve el showing Counter-timbers. acro between the fashion-pieces, cro ing in front of the stern-post, near its head. At the top of the counter-timbers is the taffrail. ( Knight .) 2. Mining : A cro vein. 3. Bootmaking: The back part of a boot or shoe, around the heel of the wearer, and to which the boot-heel is attached. ( Knight .) 4. Music : The same as COUNTER-TENOR (q. v.). 5. Farriery: That part of a horse's forehand which lies between the shoulders and under the neck. counter-approaches, s. pl. Fort .: A line of trenches thrown up by the besieged to hinder the approach of the besiegers. Line of counter - approach : A line of trenches."- Tyndall : Fragments of made by the besieged to the right and left of their "The outward and visible phenomena are with us the counters of the intellect Science (3d ed.), ch. ix., p. 237. 2. A thing of little or no importance, a trifle. B. Technically: 1. Mach .: An apparatus attached to a steam engine, printing-pre , or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or impre ions, as the case may be. *2. Old Eng . Law : The name given to certain prisons in London and South wark. [COMPTER.] Of these two were in London: one in the Poultry, the other in Wood-street; one was in South wark. "To both the Counters , wher they have releast Sundrie indebted prisoners." Play of Sir Thomas More. covered way in order to sweep the besiegers' works. counter-attired, a. Her.: Applied to the double horns of animals when borne two in one way and two in another in opposite directions. counter-attraction, s. Anything which acts in opposition or contrary to any attraction. IMG:content-1111.jpg:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] **ounter-house, *count our-hous, s. A count the fire of the besiegers, and cover the storming ing-house. IMG:content-1112.jpg:[blocks in formation]