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Definition of Couch

Couch To lay upon a bed or other resting place. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying. To conceal; to include or involve darkly. To arrange; to place; to inlay. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch. A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt. A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc. Related Definitions: And, Any, Arrange, As, Barley, Be, Beast, Bed, Bend, Blanket, Body, By, Cataract, Cloth, Color, Conceal, Concealed, Concealment, Couch, Crouch, Darkly, Deposit, Displacing, Dispose, Down, Dried, Drying, Express, Felt, Floor, Followed, For, Form, From, Further, Germinate, Hide, In, Include, Included, Inlay, Into, Involve, Involved, Labor, Lair, Language, Lay, Layer, Lens, Lie, Lounge, Malt, Malting, Mass, Mold, Needle, Occupied, Of, On, Opaque, Or, Other, Pain, Particularly, Partly, Phrase, Place, Preliminary, Pronoun, Pulp, Pushing, Put, Recline, Reflexive, Repose, Rest, Resting, Reverence, Size, Sleep, Some, Sometimes, Spread, Steeped, Stoop, The, To, Transfer, Treat, Under, United, Upon, Used, Wire, With

Couch Quotations We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. John F. Kennedy I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies. Brian Austin Green If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. Marshall McLuhan The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. June Jordan Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch. Craig Kilborn

Couch Translations couch in Dutch is rustbank, Turkse staatsraad, divan couch in German is Liege couch in Latin is lectus couch in Norwegian is sofa, salong couch in Swedish is soffa, divan

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