ETYM French couche, Old Fren. colche, culche, from colchier. Related to Couch.
1. A narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment.
2. A primer of paint or vanish used by artists.

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
4. To phrase or express in a specified manner
6. To lie down or recline for sleep or rest
6. To lie in ambush

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