rare. [f. prec. + -NESS. Cf. COUCH v. 15.] The quality of being set together; composition, framing (of a defined kind).
1629. Gaule, Holy Madn., 165. What is Strength & Stoutnesse, but a stiffer Compact, or more solide Couchednesse of the Ioynts, and Bloud?
