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[Eng. couch, and wheat.] Trit icum repens. [COUCH-GRASS.] couch-an-çỹ, 8. [Fr. couchant, pr. par. of coucher to lie down.] The act or state of lying IMG:content-1089.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1090.png:[blocks in formation] "Cowchyn or leyne thinges togedyr. Colloco."- Prompt . Parv . (2) Spec .: To lay or repose on a bed or couch. "But where unbruised youth, with unstuff'd brain, Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign." Shakesp.: Romeo , ii. 3. (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 ve els of earth, in their walls,."- Bacon : Nat . Hist . (4) To conceal, to hide away. "In the seler of Juppiter ther ben couched two tunnes." Chaucer: Boethius, p. 35. (5) To cause to cower or hide. "This said, he shakes aloft his Roman blade, Which, like a falcon towering in the skies, Coucheth the fowl below with his wings' shade." Shakesp.: Tarquin and Lucrece , 505-7. 2. Figuratively : (1) To include, to comprise, to involve, to expre . "That great argument for a future state, which St. Paul hath couched in the words I have read to you."Atterbury: Sermons. *(2) To conceal, to include or involve secretly. "There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory."-L'Estrange. *(3) To arrange, to settle. "The emperor's ban was already formally couched , and ready to put to the print."- Reliquica Wottoniance , p. 521. (4) To combine. "Come then, my friend, I'll change my style, And couch instruction with a smile." IMG:content-1091.png:[blocks in formation] †couch (2), v . t. [A contr. of couch - gra (q. v.).] To clear land of couch-gra , weeds, .