These are the meanings of the letters UNCOUCH when you unscramble them.
- Conch (n.)
A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
- Conch (n.)
In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
- Conch (n.)
One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
- Conch (n.)
See Concha, n.
- Conch (n.)
The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
- Couch (v. i.)
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- Couch (v. i.)
To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
- Couch (v. i.)
To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
- Couch (v. t.)
A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
- Couch (v. t.)
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
- Couch (v. t.)
A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
- Couch (v. t.)
Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
- Couch (v. t.)
To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
- Couch (v. t.)
To arrange; to place; to inlay.
- Couch (v. t.)
To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
- Couch (v. t.)
To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- Couch (v. t.)
To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
- Couch (v. t.)
To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
- Couch (v. t.)
To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
- Couch (v. t.)
To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.