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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accumbent, couche, crawling, crouched, debased, decumbent, depressed, draped, flat, groveling, knee-high, knocked flat, laid low, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lying, neap, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resupine, runty, short, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squat, squatty, stooped, stumpy, supine, unelevated
Dictionary Results for couchant:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
couchant
    adj 1: lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed
           forward

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Couchant \Couch"ant\ (kouch"ant), a. [F., p. pr. of coucher. See
   Couch, v. t.]
   1. Lying down with head erect; squatting.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Her.) Lying down with the head raised, which
      distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of
      dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast.
      [1913 Webster]

   Couchant and levant (Law), rising up and lying down; --
      said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long
      enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down
      and rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a
      day and night at the least. --Blackstone.
      [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
COUCHANT. Lying down. Animals are said to have been levant and couchant, 
when they have been upon another person's land, damage feasant, one night at 
least. 3 Bl. Com. 9. 



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