couchant

Definitions

1. Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
   not-comparable
2. Represented as crouching with the head raised.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“There were the tawny rocks, like⟳ lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.”

“Two figures faced each other, large, austere; / A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast, / An angel standing in the moonlight clear; […]”

“Or again, have⟳ you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?”

“His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould […]”

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