| couch | |
| 1. s. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person. | |
| 2. s. A bed, a resting-place. | |
| 3. s. (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size. | |
| 4. s. (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley. | |
| a couch of malt | |
| 5. v. To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose). | |
| 6. v. (archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly. | |
| 7. v. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch. | |
| 8. v. To lay something upon a bed or other resting place. | |
| 9. v. To arrange or dispose as if in a bed. | |
| 10. v. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. | |
| 11. v. To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack. | |
| 12. v. (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. | |
| 13. v. (paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying. | |
| 14. v. (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture. | |
| 15. v. To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for. | |
| He couched it as a request, but it was an order. | |
| 16. s. couch grass, Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed. | |
