Cotton (Hastings' Dictionary)

The word karpof (Est 1") is rendered by AV, as also by RV, green, but in the marg. of the latter, cotton. It is certainly either cotton or linen stuff. Karpn^ is a loan-word. Sansk. karpdsa, 'cotton'; Persian karpa^, 'fine linen ' (Richardson's Lex.) ; hence also Kdpiraaot and carbasus. Pa.s»nge3 have been quoted from Arriim and others to prove that it grew and was used for clothing in India. G. £. VonT. COUCH.- See Bed.

As a verb, 'couch,' which means ' to stooj),' 'to lie down' (or transitively 'to lay down '), and is now used only of beasts, and esp. in the sense of lurking to s|)ring, was formerly used also of persons and things. Thus Shaks. Merry Wives, V. ii. 1 ; ' Come, come, we'll coudi i' the castle-ditch till we see the light of our fairies.' So Dt 33" 'the deep that coucheth beneath,' where it is possible, however, as Driver suggests, that the subterranean deep is pictured as a gigantic monster (cf .

p. 605 f. above). J. HASTINGS.