||Cou`ché" (k??`sh?"), a.
[F., p. p. of coucher. See Couch, v.
t. ] (Her.) (a) Not erect;
inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an
escutcheon. (b) Lying on its side;
thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from
one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side,
or at the fess point.