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v. Present participle of couch.

n. The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

n. Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

n. The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

n. Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

n. The act of stooping or bowing.

n. In surgery, an operation in cases of cataract, consisting in the removal of the opaque crystalline lens out of the axis of vision by means of a needle: now rarely practised.

n. In malting, the spreading of malt to dry after steeping. See couch, transitive verb, 3.

n. In paper-making, the removal of the flake of pulp from the mold on which it is formed to a felt.

n. A kind of embroidery in which silk, gold thread, or the like is laid upon the surface of the foundation instead of being drawn through it.

n. In agriculture, the operation of clearing land from couch-grass.

"Laid work might be described as couching on a more extended scale -- a given space is covered with threads taken from side to side in parallel lines close together, fixed at either extremity by entering the material."

couch   

crouching    slouching    vouching