Note: Coaches have a variety of forms, and differ in respect
to the number of persons they can carry. Mail coaches
and tallyho coaches often have three or more seats
inside, each for two or three persons, and seats
outside, sometimes for twelve or more.
2. A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for
examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew
for a race. [Colloq.]
Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester
coach. --G. Eliot.
3. (Naut.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck,
usually occupied by the captain. [Written also {couch}.]
[Obs.]
The commanders came on board and the council sat in
the coach. --Pepys.
4. (Railroad) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished
from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is
sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does
couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
--Shak.
2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed
by the reflexive pronoun.
The waters couch themselves as may be to the center
of this globe, in a spherical convexity. --T.
Burnet.
3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch
potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
--Bacon.
4. (Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried
pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for
further drying.
5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
There is all this, and more, that lies naturally
couched under this allegory. --L'Estrange.
6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase;
-- used with in and under.
A well-couched invective. --Milton.
I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather
cool terms. --Blackw. Mag.
8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque
lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
{To couch a} {spear or lance}, to lower to the position of
attack; to place in rest.
He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And
spurred his steed to full career. --Sir W.
Scott.
{To couch malt}, to spread malt on a floor. --Mortimer.
Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in
hand. --Shak.
If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men.
--Shak.
2. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to
be included or involved darkly.
We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the
light of our fairies. --Shak.
The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet
couch beneath the words of the Scripture. --I.
Taylor.
3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to
stoop; to crouch. [Obs.]
An aged squire That seemed to couch under his shield
three-square. --Spenser.
Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile In
loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch?
--Shak.
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About
him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant.
2. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
3. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate,
in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch
of malt.
4. (Painting & Gilding) A preliminary layer, as of color,
size, etc.