couch

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• Couch

  ·vt To lay upon a bed or other resting place. II. Couch ·vt A preliminary layer, as of color, size,...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Couch

  (Gen. 49:4; 1 Chr. 5:1; Job 7:13; Ps. 6:6, etc.), a seat for repose or rest. (See Bed.) ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• couch

  the roots of grass collected by the harrow in pasture lands, when first ploughed up. Glou. ; vulgarl...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Couch

  [Bed] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Couch grass

  ·- ·see Quitch grass. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to couch a hogshead

  To lie down to sleep. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas ("Q")

  (b. 1863) Novelist. Dead Man's Rock (1887), Troy Town (1888), The Splendid Spur (1889), The Blue Pa...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin