a technique used in embroidery to stitch down one thread with another In quilting, this method allows you to zigzag over thicker threads, thereby attaching them to the surface without putting them through the needle of your sewing machine
To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract
If a statement is couched in a particular style of language, it is expressed in that style of language. The new centre-right government's radical objectives are often couched in moderate terms = phrase. be couched in sth to be expressed in a particular way
a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment