[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]
>
>              Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile
>              In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch?
>                                                    --Shak.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
>              About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
>                                                    --Bryant.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     2. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
>        [1913 Webster]
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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.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     4. (Painting & Gilding) A preliminary layer, as of color,
>        size, etc.
>        [1913 Webster]
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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.
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>              Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain,
>              Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
>                                                    --Shak.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed
>        by the reflexive pronoun.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              The waters couch themselves as may be to the center
>              of this globe, in a spherical convexity. --T.
>                                                    Burnet.
>        [1913 Webster]
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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.
>        [1913 Webster]
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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.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              There is all this, and more, that lies naturally
>              couched under this allegory.          --L'Estrange.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase;
>        -- used with in and under.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              A well-couched invective.             --Milton.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather
>              cool terms.                           --Blackw. Mag.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque
>        lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     To couch a spear or To couch a lance, to lower to the
>        position of attack; to place in rest.
>        [1913 Webster]
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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.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men.
>                                                    --Shak.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     2. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to
>        be included or involved darkly.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the
>              light of our fairies.                 --Shak.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet
>              couch beneath the words of the Scripture. --I.
>                                                    Taylor.
>        [1913 Webster]
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>     3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to
>        stoop; to crouch. [Obs.]
>        [1913 Webster]
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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.
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>     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.]
>        [1913 Webster]
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>              Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester
>              coach.                                --G. Eliot.
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>     3. (Naut.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck,
>        usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.]
>        [Obs.]
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>              The commanders came on board and the council sat in
>              the coach.                            --Pepys.
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>     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]
>
>     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]
>
>
> 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]
>
>
> 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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