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Couch

noun

An upholstered seat for more than one person. Synonyms: lounge, sofa.

A flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer.

A narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment.

verb

(past & past part. couched; pres. part. couching)

Formulate in a particular style or language. Synonyms: cast, frame, put, redact. "She cast her request in very polite language"

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... to help Morgan through, and Small and Billy Widgeon went to where he was lying on the sand, with Bruff beside him, sharing the wounded couch. ...

— Mother Carey's Chicken - Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle • George Manville Fenn

... the Vicomte de Troisville. Some said, "Moreau has sold them a bed." The bed was six feet wide in that quarter; it was four feet wide at Madame Granson's, in the rue du Bercail; but it was reduced to a simple couch at Monsieur du Ronceret's, where du Bousquier was dining. The lesser bourgeoisie declared that the cost was eleven hundred francs. But generally it was thought that, as to this, rumor was counting the chickens before they were hatched. In other quarters it was said ...

— An Old Maid • Honore de Balzac

... —— May bowl!" he groaned, and then sat down in the chair beside his couch to feel of his head, which seemed a gigantic bass drum, hollow and reverberating. Like a flash his desperate flirtation with the wife of his own squadron chief came ...

— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg

... he was hungry—he had fed well this day, and in a safe cache were the remains of his kill, ready against the coming of a new appetite. Perhaps it was the very joy of living that urged him from his arboreal couch to pit his muscles and his senses against the jungle night, and then, too, Tarzan always was goaded by an intense desire ...

— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... Lobster, the young of which, according to Van Beneden, are distinguished from the adult animal, by having their feet furnished, like those of Mysis, with a swimming branch projecting freely outwards. From a figure given by Couch the appendages of the abdomen and tail also appear to ...

— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller

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