Definitions for couchant

couchant couch·ant

Spelling: [kou-chuh nt]
IPA: /ˈkaʊ tʃənt/

Couchant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in couchant (acchnotu).

Definitions for couchant

adjective

  1. lying down; crouching.
  2. Heraldry. (of an animal) represented as lying on its stomach with its hind legs and forelegs pointed forward.

Origin of couchant

1400-50; late Middle English Middle French, present participle of coucher to lay or lie. See couch, -ant

Examples for couchant

couchant by the body of the bighorn, he only growled as the cavalcade swept past.

These seemed to be a couchant leopard, with the motto, "I sleep; wake me not."

couchant: is at rest, the fore legs stretched on the ground, as No. 177.

Four rusticated columns support an arched pediment and two couchant lions holding shields.

Sordello, that noble and disdainful Lombard, eyes us from afar like a couchant lion.

Two little angels kneel at her head, while her feet rest on two couchant lambs, symbols of innocence.

In Curzon's figure the lion is standing, not 'couchant', as stated by Malcolm, and grasps a scimitar in his off forepaw.

Arthur's Seat, like a couchant lion of immense size—Salisbury Crags, like a huge belt or girdle of granite, were dimly visible.

His eyes dwelt fondly on the placid Imogene, couchant amidships.

Just before her up there in the clouds is a huge lion, couchant.

Word Value for couchant
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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