couch
couch (ko̵uc̸h)
noun
- an article of furniture on which one may sit or lie down; sofa; divan
- any resting place
- Old Poet. a place for sleeping; bed
- Obsolete an animal's lair or den
- Brewing a layer of grain spread to germinate
- Fine Arts a priming layer or coat, as of paint or varnish
Etymology: ME & OFr couche, a bed, lair: see couchthe
transitive verb
- to lay or put on or as on a couch, as to sleep: now usually used reflexively or in the passive voice
- to lower or bring down; esp., to lower (a spear, lance, etc.) to an attacking position
- to put in specific or particular words; phrase; express the speech was couched in flowery language
- to embroider with thread laid flat and fastened down with fine stitches
- Archaic to put in a layer
- Obsolete to hide
- Brewing to spread (grain) in a thin layer to germinate
- Surgery to remove (a cataract) by using a needle to push down the crystalline lens of the eye
Etymology: ME couchen < OFr coucher, to lie down < L collocare, to lay < com-, together + locare, to place: see local
intransitive verb
- to lie down on a bed, as to sleep; recline
- to lie in hiding or in ambush
- to lie in a pile, as decomposing leaves
on the couch
☆couch
n.
Object
- eye: Indeed we have encountered several couched eyes with much better vision than ICCE post-operative eyes.
Converse of object
- cast: GT: You just said to me this is the casting couch.
- desire: She desires the couch of heart's joy, she desires the couch.
Adjective modifier
- comfy: I've got my PC and my comfy couch.
- plush: To them to life quot chairs and plush couches the air corps.
- comfortable: The Scan For your scan you will be positioned on a comfortable couch, which is moved into the magnet.
- red: Beside him on the red velvet couch lounged a handsome young man. Tell me, she said, urgent now for the truth.
- common: Common couch allowed to flower in the field margins may set seed that could be dispersed within the field or beyond.
Modifies a noun
- potato: An evening of being a couch potato was easy to do!
- grass: Dried couch grass - lightly sprinkled - toxic to slugs.
Noun used with modifier
- casting: Do you fancy your chances on the Cosmic casting couch?
- leather: I found him in the dressing room, relaxing on a leather couch with his band members.
- massage: We will provide a portable massage couch for the massage, the perfect antidote for that long haul flight.
- onion: In roadside verges, increasing the cutting frequency reduced the frequency of onion couch.
- sand: Look out for plants like sea holly, sea campion, sea spurge and grasses such as marram and sand couch grass.
- studio: Living Rooms: The lounge contains a three piece suite and studio couch, color television and telephone.
Possessives
- psychiatrist: At times this is more psychiatrist's couch than ' real-world ' .
- therapist: It remains to be seen which one escapes the therapist's couch first.
Preposition: in
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold meöwould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchönor the heaven above herö As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.
O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
Alone until she dies,Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart wih pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
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