Definition of "couched" [couched]

• Simple past tense and past participle of couch. (verb)
• Couché (adjective)

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• "Lay down -- or "couched," is appropriate to the lion, the Arab name of which means "the coucher.""
• "Young, and myself pushed on to the place where he again couched; he seemed extremely savagehis eyes rolling, & his tail lashing, with one of his fore paws on a ladder which had drop'd from my"
• "Observe, again, that the language in which these Beatitudes are couched is purposely fetched from the Old"