couchant

1. (of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.Examples: "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; […]"not-comparable

2. (heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.Examples: "His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould […]"not-comparable