"couchant" meaning in English

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      "word": "couchant and levant"
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      "expansion": "Middle French couchant",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English couchant, from Middle French couchant.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The dogs, with eager yelp, / Are struggling to be free; / The hawks in frequent stoop / Token their haste for flight; / And couchant on the saddle-bow, / With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d, / The ounce expects his liberty.",
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          "ref": "1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau and William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:",
          "text": "There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, James Thomson, chapter XX, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Two figures faced each other, large, austere; / A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast, / An angel standing in the moonlight clear; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?",
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        "Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching."
      ],
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          "crouching"
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        "(of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching."
      ],
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        "of an animal"
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ],
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          "_dis1": "84 16",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ležaščij",
          "sense": "lying with belly down; crouching",
          "word": "лежащий"
        }
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould […]",
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        "Represented as crouching with the head raised."
      ],
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        "(heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "8 92",
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          "sense": "represented as crouching with the head raised",
          "word": "liggande"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkaʊtʃənt/",
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    }
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      "word": "couchant and levant"
    },
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      "word": "counter-couchant"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The dogs, with eager yelp, / Are struggling to be free; / The hawks in frequent stoop / Token their haste for flight; / And couchant on the saddle-bow, / With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d, / The ounce expects his liberty.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau and William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:",
          "text": "There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, James Thomson, chapter XX, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Two figures faced each other, large, austere; / A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast, / An angel standing in the moonlight clear; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?",
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        "(of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching."
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        }
      ],
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        "(heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised."
      ],
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkaʊtʃənt/",
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      ]
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "ležaščij",
      "sense": "lying with belly down; crouching",
      "word": "лежащий"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "represented as crouching with the head raised",
      "word": "liggande"
    }
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  "word": "couchant"
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