couchant and levant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Old French? See couchant.

Adjective[edit]

couchant and levant (not comparable)

  1. (law, obsolete) Rising up and lying down; said of animals, indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down at night and rise up to feed by day.

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