couchant

adj

1. (not-comparable)Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.

   “The dogs, with eager yelp, / Are struggling to be free; / The hawks in frequent stoop / Token their haste for flight; / And couchant on the saddle-bow, / With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d, / The ounce expects his liberty.”

   “There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.”

   “Two figures faced each other, large, austere; / A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast, / An angel standing in the moonlight clear; […]”

   “Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?”

2. (not-comparable)Represented as crouching with the head raised.

   “His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould […]”