a method of embroidering in which a thread, often heavy, laid upon the surface of the material, is caught down at intervals by stitches taken with another thread through the material.
work so made.
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The Times, carefully couching its words, said it spoke with Lohan about a “potential appearance” in Speed-the-Plow.
Israel must stop couching the nuclear issue in apocalyptic terms and adopt a more pragmatic approach.
Rabbah of Ammon was to become, "A stable for camels and couching place for flocks" (Ezekiel xxv, 5).
It has a lion's body, in a couching posture, with the head and face of a Nubian female, and is of most enormous dimensions.
In his old age he was blinded by cataract, but recovered his eyesight by the operation of couching.
There we laid the beauty across the feet of the princess, her fore-paws outstretched, and her head couching between them.
He sat there until the couching sun brought long, thin shadows and a false promise of coolness.