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Definition of Couchants

Couchant
Couchant Couch"ant (kouch"ant), a. [F., p. pr. of coucher. See Couch, v. t.] 1. Lying down with head erect; squatting. 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. 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.

Meaning of Couchants from wikipedia

- Soleils couchants ("Sunsets", or "Setting Suns") is a set of six poems, or a six-part poem, by Victor Hugo. The poems were written individually and grouped...
- roi Soleils couchants. Soleils couchants (II). Soleils couchants (III). Soleils couchants (IV). Soleils couchants (V). Soleils couchants (VI). Souvenir...
- Lyubov Streicher: Romances Denise Roger: Soleils Couchants (1963) Beatrice Siegrist: Soleils Couchants (1963) Léo Ferré: Verlaine et Rimbaud (1964) Marc...
- sometimes termed "sejant-rampant"). Lion sejant Lion sejant erect A beast couchant (Old French: "lying down") is lying down, but with the head raised. Lodged...
- UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-104153-2. "Maghreb, en arabe Maghrib ou Marhrib (" le Couchant ")". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Archived from the original on 22...
- appear statant (standing), salient or springing (leaping), sejant (seated), couchant or lodged (lying prone with head raised), or occasionally dormant (sleeping)...
- state flags; a plain red flag with a couchant lion and sun motif as the war flag, a plain white flag with a couchant lion and sun for diplomatic purposes...
- usually only one bay deep and are supported on two columns, often resting on couchant lions, as at St Zeno, Verona.See above. Elsewhere, porches of various dates...
- "What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man...
- a wheel symbolizing the dharmachakra, the Wheel of Buddhist law, with couchant deer on either side symbolizing the deer park in which the sermon was preached...