couchedadj.
/kaʊtʃt/ a. Laid or lying down; lying hidden or concealed, covert; expressed in words, etc.; see the verb.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden
dighela1000
dernc1000
wriena1250
privyc1300
unshewedc1386
wrapped1398
quatc1425
tectc1440
blinda1522
coucheda1522
dark1532
lurkingc1540
velated1542
hiddena1547
inclusive1554
concealed1558
secret1559
occult1567
disguised1594
occulted1598
derned1600
shrouded1600
latent1605
abstrused1608
supposed1608
unshown1614
enshielda1616
retruse1623
dissembled1631
researched1636
recondite1649
delitescent1653
larved1654
tected1657
bedilt1660
bosomed1667
inhidden1674
underground1677
abditive1727
secreted1756
unextruded1808
unprotruded1812
undisplayed1822
larvated1832
dissimulated1838
latescent1852
squat1956
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [adjective] > on or as on a couch
coucheda1522
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > as a surface
fullOE
coucheda1522
the world > space > place > position or situation > [adjective] > having a (specified) position
besteda1300
set13..
situatec1425
bestowed1484
situatedc1487
collocate1529
resident1571
sited1578
posited1666
stowed1674
couched1675
enlodged1678
parked1807
the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > lying down
couching1598
couchant1601
couched1807
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [adjective]
lyingc1000
couchant1601
prone1610
jacent1611
decumbent1656
cumbentc1660
recumbent1664
recline1667
procumbent1668
discumbent1693
reclining1748
couched1807
Récamier1904
Madame Récamier1913
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [adjective] > operations on eye
couched1807
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. xiii. 68 Throw..hys targe platyt thryss with steill, And throw the cowchit lynnyn euery deill.
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos x. Dd ij b Deepe silence now to breake, and to disclose my chouched paine.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 97 Not force, but well couch't fraud. View more context for this quotation
1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 332 When this well couch't frame of World shall burn.
1807 E. Home in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 91 The experiments were again repeated on the couched eye.
1807 J. Johnson Oriental Voy. 168 Tiger Island (so called from some faint resemblance..to a couched tiger).
1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism vi. 251 The couched resentment of the Church.
b. Heraldry. Said of a chevron borne sideways, issuing from the side of the escutcheon.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > charged with chevrons > types of chevron
couched1586
enarched1631
couché1727
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 181 The most rare manner is, to see them [cheuerons] borne couched.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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