Couched

ppl. a. [f. COUCH v.¹ + -ED¹.] Laid or lying down; lying hidden or concealed, covert; expressed in words, etc.; see the verb.

1513.  Douglas, Æneis, X. xiii. 68. Throw … hys targe platit thriis wyth steyll And throw the cowchit lynnyn euery deyll.

1573.  Twyne, Æneid., X. Dd ij b. Deepe silence now to breake, and to disclose my chouched paine.

1671.  Milton, P. R., I. 97. Not force, but well couch’t fraud.

1675.  Burthogge, Causa Dei, 332. When this well couch’t frame of World shall burn.

1807.  Home, in Phil. Trans., XCVII. 91. The experiments were again repeated on the couched eye.

1807.  J. Johnson, Orient. Voy., 168. Tiger Island (so called from some faint resemblance … to a couched tiger).

1835.  I. 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.

1586.  Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 181. The most rare manner is, to see them [cheuerons] borne couched.