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unˈcouch, v.
[un-2 5 and 7.]
1. trans. To raise up from a couch.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xxxv. (1869) 154 It is a god that..wole that men cowchen him ofte and vncowche him. 1611Florio, Dislettare, to vnbed, to vncouch.
2. To drive (an animal) out of its lair. Also fig.
a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 89 The kyng..commaunded the hunts to oncouche the boore. 1609T. Jackson Londons NewYeeres Gift 14 b, They are resembled vnto Foxes, whom we are now to vncouch. Ibid. 20 b, In the next place, we are to vncouch the Foxes Ecclesiasticall.
b. intr. Of an animal: To come out of its lair.
1860Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iv. §11. 4 As a young fawn uncouches..from the fern where some hunter approaches.
Hence unˈcouched ppl. a., unˈcouching vbl. n.
1609T. Jackson (title), Londons New-Yeeres Gift, or the Vncovching of the Foxe. Ibid. Ded. A ij b, My selfe [shall] remaine the safer from the teeth of vncouched Foxes, if [etc.]. |