[Coco] What exactly is a couch? (WAS: Re: (no subject))
Shain Klammer
sklammer at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 22:42:13 EDT 2007
That's why I prefer the word "chesterfield" rather than the American
import, but alas :)
sk
On 14/07/07, Dave Kelly <daveekelly at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> This one got really long. Some defs I was unaware of.
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> The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]
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> Couch \Couch\, n. [F. couche, OF. colche, culche, fr. colchier.
> See Couch, v. t. ]
> 1. A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the
> United States, a lounge.
> [1913 Webster]
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> Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile
> In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch?
> --Shak.
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> Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
> About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
> --Bryant.
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> 2. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
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> 3. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate,
> in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch
> of malt.
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> 4. (Painting & Gilding) A preliminary layer, as of color,
> size, etc.
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> Couch \Couch\ (kouch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Couched (koucht);
> p. pr. & vb. n. Couching.] [F. coucher to lay down, lie
> down, OF. colchier, fr. L. collocare to lay, put, place; col-
> + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus.]
> [1913 Webster]
> 1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
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> Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain,
> Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
> --Shak.
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> 2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed
> by the reflexive pronoun.
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> The waters couch themselves as may be to the center
> of this globe, in a spherical convexity. --T.
> Burnet.
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> 3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
> [1913 Webster]
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> It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch
> potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
> --Bacon.
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> 4. (Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried
> pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for
> further drying.
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> 5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
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> There is all this, and more, that lies naturally
> couched under this allegory. --L'Estrange.
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> 6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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> 7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase;
> -- used with in and under.
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> A well-couched invective. --Milton.
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> I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather
> cool terms. --Blackw. Mag.
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> 8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque
> lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
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> To couch a spear or To couch a lance, to lower to the
> position of attack; to place in rest.
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> He stooped his head, and couched his spear,
> And spurred his steed to full career. --Sir W.
> Scott.
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> To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. --Mortimer.
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> Couch \Couch\, v. i.
> 1. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of
> rest; to repose; to lie.
> [1913 Webster]
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> Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in
> hand. --Shak.
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> If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men.
> --Shak.
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> 2. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to
> be included or involved darkly.
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> We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the
> light of our fairies. --Shak.
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> The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet
> couch beneath the words of the Scripture. --I.
> Taylor.
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> 3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to
> stoop; to crouch. [Obs.]
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> An aged squire
> That seemed to couch under his shield three-square.
> --Spenser.
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> Coach \Coach\ (k[=o]ch; 224), n. [F. coche, fr. It. cocchio,
> dim. of cocca little boat, fr. L. concha mussel, mussel
> shell, Gr. ?, akin to Skr. [,c]ankha. Cf. Conch,
> Cockboat, Cockle.]
> 1. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in
> the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside,
> each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in
> front for the driver.
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> Note: Coaches have a variety of forms, and differ in respect
> to the number of persons they can carry. Mail coaches
> and tallyho coaches often have three or more seats
> inside, each for two or three persons, and seats
> outside, sometimes for twelve or more.
> [1913 Webster]
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> 2. A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for
> examination. [Colloq.]
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> Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester
> coach. --G. Eliot.
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> 3. (Naut.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck,
> usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.]
> [Obs.]
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> The commanders came on board and the council sat in
> the coach. --Pepys.
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> 4. (Railroad) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished
> from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is
> sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
> [1913 Webster]
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> 5. One who coaches; specif. (sports), a trainer; one who
> assists in training individual athletes or the members of
> a sports team, or who performs other ancillary functions
> in sports; as, a third base coach.
> [+PJC]
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> WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
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> couch
> n 1: an upholstered seat for more than one person [syn: sofa, lounge]
> 2: a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer
> 3: a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or
> psychoanalytic treatment
> v : formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put
> it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite
> language" [syn: frame, redact, cast, put]
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> Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]
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> 123 Moby Thesaurus words for "couch":
> analysis, bear down, bed, bed down, bedstead, bring low, bunk,
> burrow, cave, conceive, couch in terms, covert, crawl, creep,
> crouch, curl up, debase, den, depress, depth interview,
> depth psychology, detrude, divan, doss, downbear, dream analysis,
> dream symbolism, earth, embed, embody in words, express, form,
> formularize, formulate, frame, give expression to, give words to,
> go to bed, go to rest, group analysis, grovel, gumshoe, gurney,
> haul down, hole, hug the earth, indent, interpretation of dreams,
> kip, lair, lay wait, let down, lie down, lie in wait, lie low,
> lie prone, lie prostrate, lie under, litter, lodge, loll, lounge,
> lower, lurk, mew, nightwalk, paragraph, phrase, present,
> press down, prone, prostrate, prowl, psychanalysis, psychoanalysis,
> psychoanalytic method, psychoanalytic therapy, psychognosis,
> psychognosy, psychology of depths, pull down, push down, pussyfoot,
> put, put in words, recline, reduce, repose, rest, rhetorize, run,
> set out, settee, settle, settle to rest, shadow, sink, skulk,
> slink, sneak, snug down, sofa, sprawl, squat, stalk, state, steal,
> stretcher, style, supinate, take down, take it easy,
> take life easy, tete-a-tete, the couch, the hay, the sack,
> thrust down, tiptoe, tunnel, underlie, vis-a-vis, word
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> Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]
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> Couch
> (Gen. 49:4; 1 Chr. 5:1; Job 7:13; Ps. 6:6, etc.), a seat for
> repose or rest. (See BED.)
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> U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]
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> Couch, MO
> Zip code(s): 65690
>
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