couch

/ˈkau̇ch/

Middle English, from Anglo-French cucher, from Latin collocare to set in place

verb

  1. to lay (oneself) down for rest or sleep

  2. to embroider (a design) by laying down a thread and fastening it with small stitches at regular intervals

  3. to place or hold level and pointed forward ready for use

The lion couched himself by a tree.

noun

  1. an article of furniture for sitting or reclining

  2. a couch on which a patient reclines when undergoing psychoanalysis

  3. the den of an animal (such as an otter)

noun

  1. quack grass

  2. any of several grasses that resemble quack grass in spreading by creeping rhizomes