levant and couchant

levant and couchant (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of couchant and levant.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     But if the lands were not sufficiently fenced so as to keep to out cattle , the landlord cannot distrain them till they have been levant and couchant on the land

• couchant and levant