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noun

Couching n.

(Med.) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

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Etymology of 'Couching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Couching" Quotes from Famous Books

... for his fate, and sought after him with great anxiety. He had not proceeded many yards from me spot where the dog lay prostrate, when his attention was arrested by the ferocious growl of some wild animal. On raising his eyes to the spot whence the sound proceeded, he discovered a large puma couching on the branch of a tree, and under him the body of his friend. The animal's eyes glared at him, and he appeared hesitating whether he should descend, and make an attack on the survivor also, or relinquish his prey, and decamp. The hunter, aware of the celerity of ...

— Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits • Thomas Bingley

... for all the soul's longings in green pastures. It speaks of footsteps that go before, in which men may follow and find them ways of pleasantness. It speaks of gentle callings by name which draw the heart. It speaks of defence when lion and bear come ravening down, and of safe couching by night when the silent stars behold the sleeping sheep and the wakeful shepherd. He Himself gives its highest significance to the emblem, in the words of this great discourse, when He fixes on His knowledge, ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren