couchant

makaava puhekieltä Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.

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?

His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould ....