1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

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.

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