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Couch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A bed; a place for rest or sleep.

2. A seat of repose; a place for rest and ease, on which it is common to lie down undressed.

3. A layer of stratum; as a couch of malt.

4. In painting, a lay or impression of color, in oil or water, covering the canvas, wall, or other matter to be painted.

5. Any lay, or impression, used to make a thing firm or consistent, or to screen it from the weather.

6. A covering of gold or silver leaf, laid on any substance to be gilded or silvered.

Couch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lie down, as on a bed or place of repose.

2. To lie down on the knees; to stop and recline on the knees, as a beast.

3. Fierce tigers couched around.

4. To lie down in secret or in ambush; to lie close and concealed.

5. The earl of Angus couched in a furrow.

6. Judah couched as a lion. Genesis 44:1 .

7. To lie; to lie in a bed or stratum.

8. Blessed of the Lord be his land-for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath. Deuteronomy 33:13 .

9. To stoop; to bend the body or back; to lower in reverence, or to bend under labor, pain, or a burden.

10. Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens. Genesis 44:1 .

11. These couchings, and these lowly courtesies.

Couch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lay down; to repose on a bed or place of rest.

2. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, doth couch his limbs.

3. To lay down; to spread on a bed or floor; as, to couch malt.

4. To lay close, or in a stratum.

5. The waters couch themselves, as close as may be, to the center of the globe.

6. To hide; to lay close, or in another body.

7. It is in use at this day, to couch vessels in walls, to gather the wind from the top, and pass it down in spouts into rooms.

8. To include secretly; to hide; or to express in obscure terms, that imply what is to be understood; with under.

9. All this, and more, lies couched under this allegory.

10. Hence,

11. To involve; to include; to comprise; to comprehend or express.

12. This great argument for a future state, which St. Paul hath couched int he words read.

13. To lie close.

14. To fix a spear in the rest, in the posture of attack.

15. They couched their spears.

16. To depress the condensed crystaline humor or film that overspreads the pupil of the eye. To remove a catarct, by entering a needle through the coats of the eye, and pushing the lens to the bottom of the vitreous humor, and then downwards and outwards, so as to leave it in the under and outside of the eye. The true phrase is, to couch a cataract; but we say, to couch they eye, or the patient.

Couch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

2. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

Couch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

4. To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

6. To arrange; to place; to inlay.

7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.

8. To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

9. A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

10. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

11. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

12. A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

Couch grass Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Quitch grass.

Couch-fellow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A bed fellow; a companion in lodging.

Couch-grass [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A species of grass, very injurious to other plants.

Couchancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

State of lying down for repose.

Couchant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Lying down; squatting. In heraldry, 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.

2. Levant and couchant in law, rising up and lying down; applied to beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land to lie down and rise up to feed, or one night at least.

Couchant [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Lying down with head erect; squatting.

2. Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast.

Couche [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.

2. Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

Couched [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Laid down; laid on; hid; included or involved; laid close; fixed in the rest, as a spear; depressed or removed, as a cataract.

Couched [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Couch/.

Couched [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Couch

Couchee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bedtime; late visiting at night.

Couchee [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.

Coucher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who couches cataracts.

2. In old English statutes, a factor; a resident in a country for traffick.

3. A book in which a religious house register their acts.

Coucher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who couches.

2. One who couches paper.

3. A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.

4. The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.

Couching [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of stooping or bowing.

Couching [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Lying down; laying down; lying close; involving; including; expressing; depressing a cataract.

Couching [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

2. Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

Couching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Couch

Couchless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no couch or bed.

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14 KJV and 9 BSB verses contain “Couch”

Genesis 49:4

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

Genesis 49:14

Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

Numbers 24:9

He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”

Deuteronomy 33:13

And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,

Esther 1:6

Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

Esther 7:8

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Job 7:13

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

Job 38:40

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

Psalms 6:6

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Ezekiel 23:41

And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

Ezekiel 25:5

And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

Amos 3:12

Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

Amos 6:4

That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

Mark 7:4

And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.

And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining.

Luke 5:19

And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

Luke 5:24

But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins...” He said to the paralytic, “I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

Acts 5:15

Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.