| 释义 |
couched, ppl. a.|kaʊtʃt|
[f. couch v.1 + -ed1.]
Laid or lying down; lying hidden or concealed, covert; expressed in words, etc.; see the verb.
1513Douglas æneis x. xiii. 68 Throw..hys targe platit thriis wyth steyll And throw the cowchit lynnyn euery deyll. 1573Twyne æneid x. Dd ij b, Deepe silence now to breake, and to disclose my chouched paine. 1671Milton P.R. i. 97 Not force, but well couch't fraud. 1675R. Burthogge Causa Dei 332 When this well couch't frame of World shall burn. 1807Home in Phil. Trans. XCVII. 91 The experiments were again repeated on the couched eye. 1807J. Johnson Orient. Voy. 168 Tiger Island (so called from some faint resemblance..to a couched tiger). 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. vi. 251 The couched resentment of the Church.
b. Her. Said of a chevron borne sideways, issuing from the side of the escutcheon.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 181 The most rare manner is, to see them [cheuerons] borne couched. |