18 August 2017
couchant
[kou-chuh nt]
adjective
1. lying down; crouching.
2. Heraldry. (of an animal) represented as lying on its stomach with its hind legs and forelegs pointed forward.
Origin of couchant
late Middle English
1400-1450; late Middle English; Middle French, present participle of coucher to lay or lie. See couch, -ant
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Historical Examples
She began to picture herself traveling with Ralph in a land where these monsters were couchant in the sand.
Night and Day
Virginia Woolf
Sordello, that noble and disdainful Lombard, eyes us from afar like a couchant lion.
Intentions
Oscar Wilde
The carving of one pair of arms might be couchant lions; on the next, leopards; on the next, hounds, and so on.
In the Days of the Guild
Louise Lamprey
Anagram
coach nut
tan couch
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Today’s quote
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
– Drake
On this day
18 August – Vietnam Veterans’ Day. The day was originally Long Tan Day, which commemorated the anniversary of the Australian Army’s victory in the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War on this day in 1966. During the battle, 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought against 2,000 North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong troops. Eighteen Australian and New Zealand soldiers were killed and 24 wounded, while there were hundreds of North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong deaths.
18 August 1931 – the flooded Yangtze River, China, peaks in what becomes the worst natural disaster of the 20th century, killing up to 3.7 million people.
18 August 1948 – Australia’s greatest cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman, plays his last game of test cricket. It was played at the Oval in Britain against the English cricket team. Bradman was bowled for a duck, which left him 4 runs short of a career average of 100 runs. Bradman’s first test was in 1928. Over his 20 year test career, he played 52 tests, scored 6,996 runs, with a top score of 334 and an average of 99.94. Throughout his first-grade career, he played 234 games, scored 28,067 runs, with a top score of 452 not out and an average of 95.14.