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   couch

   /kuːtʃ/

   noun

   • 1. a long upholstered piece of furniture for several people to sit on: "I sat in an armchair and they sat on the couch"
   • ▪ a reclining seat with a headrest at one end on which a psychoanalyst's subject or doctor's patient lies while undergoing treatment: "the child was lying on the examination couch"

   verb

   • 1. express (something) in language of a specified style: "the assurances were couched in general terms"
   • 2. lay down: literary "two fair creatures, couched side by side in deepest grass"
   • 3. lower (a spear) to the position for attack: archaic "To arms! cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance"
   • 4. treat (a cataract) by pushing the lens of the eye downwards and backwards, out of line with the pupil: historical "cataracts, when simple, are to be couched"
   • 5. (in embroidery) fix (a thread) to a fabric by stitching it down flat with another thread: "gold and silver threads couched by hand"

   Word Origin Middle English (as a noun denoting something to sleep on; as a verb in the sense ‘lay something down’): from Old French couche (noun), coucher (verb), from Latin collocare ‘place together’ (see collocate).

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • U

     1

   • C

     3

   • H

     4

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