Couple \Cou"ple\, v. i. To come together as male and female; to copulate. [Obs.] --Milton. Bacon.
Couple \Cou"ple\ (k[u^]p"'l), n. [F. couple, fr. L. copula a bond, band; co- + apere, aptum, to join. See {Art}, a., and cf. {Copula}.] 1. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. [Obs.]
It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor. --L'Estrange.
I'll go in couples with her. --Shak.
2. Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace. ``A couple of shepherds.'' --Sir P. Sidney. ``A couple of drops'' --Addison. ``A couple of miles.'' --Dickens. ``A couple of weeks.'' --Carlyle.
Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple. --Locke.
[Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled. --2 Sam. xvi. 1.
3. A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.
Such were our couple, man and wife. --Lloyd.
Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league. --Milton.
4. (Arch.) See {Couple-close}.
5. (Elec.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a {voltaic couple} or {galvanic couple}.
6. (Mech.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.
Note: The effect of a couple of forces is to produce a rotation. A couple of rotations is equivalent to a motion of translation.
Couple \Cou"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coupled} (k[u^]p"'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coupling} (k[u^]p"l[i^]ng).] [F. coupler, fr. L. copulare. See {Couple}, n., and cf. {Copulate}, {Cobble}, v.] 1. To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach. --Shak.
2. To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.]
A parson who couples all our beggars. --Swift.
But Mr. Iacocca counters, "I never worked harder in my life than in the last couple of years.
ARD-TV said the East Germans were arriving with "huge hopes." It showed the couple crossing the border in their wedding finery.
"A couple of the events are cruising and drinking and getting out of hand," Bono said. "For the locals, it's a time we dread." Enter Anheuser-Busch, which tries to get its message across before the students hit town.
"Government has no business with a married couple's private consentual sexual practices," Castellani wrote.
That's just "murderous" for any violin, he says, and especially so for the 500 to 600 old Cremonese violins still being played (out of a couple of thousand produced by the masters).
The couple took a flight Friday.
The couple love reminiscing about the festival with visitors, but they know enough not to bring up the name "Woodstock" to longtime Bethel residents.
In the past couple of weeks, several companies, including Ambac Corp., have delayed their stock-market debuts.
A "Romeo and Juliet" couple married for 53 years died together in their nursing home room on the same night.
Waving his arms and shouting with his forlorn wife, Elena, seated nearby, Ceausescu branded as lies the charges that the couple was responsible for the deaths of 60,000 during their 24-year reign and the crackdown on protesters last week.
"It was the most heavily fortified rock house we've seen in a couple of years," said police spokesman Cmdr.
The couple agreed to accept $75,000 from the nationally syndicated "A Current Affair" to talk about their romance on the air.
The couple divorced in January 1988 and Mrs. Roush was given custody of the daughter.
I had a couple of different names.
This did not matter: she gave us a true and distinguished interpretation. The young also romped through the tango from The Golden Age - kittens playing at being naughty tigers - and a couple of other numbers.
Hydro-Quebec today has more U.S. dollar debt than any corporation in the industrial world, except for a couple of the biggest LBOs.
Three of the tornado victims, a couple and their infant son, died when their mobile home in Scott was battered by the last of the tornadoes to hit the state, authorities said.
He also asked contemporary artists to do new works about the couple.
Such was the case with Margaret and Steven Gran, a Minneapolis-area couple.
The couple were married in 1962, the year "The Graduate" was published and a year after his graduation from Williams College. Webb, son of a California doctor, epoused odd views even back in college, Davis said.
Some married couples will benefit from one change. Under current rules, relief can be given where a contract covers a married couple, so long as one partner is aged 60 or over.
In other measures: - Louisiana is cutting the waiting time for a divorce in half by no longer requiring a six-month separation before a couple files for divorce. "Our attempts to legislate morality in the divorce process have been unsuccessful.
The experience of both writing at the same time turned out quite well, Carpenter said during a recent interview at the couple's Fifth Avenue apartment, a well-lighted, book-filled home.
On many older presses, such a change takes eight hours, and then the press sometimes makes poor parts for a couple of hours while workers make adjustments.
The couple's 9-year-old daughter, Ilene, was listed in stable condition today at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
The couple took another flight Friday morning.
To work on a horse, Dr. Willoughby climbs up on a couple of bales of hay.
Castillo said Albany County Court Judge Joseph Harris refused to marry the couple, but delayed sentencing to give the lawyer a chance to find a judge who would perform the ceremony.
The victim's mother, Jeanne Quinn, said a couple holding a sign reading "Ritalin Killed Shaun, Not Rod" came to her door, asked for her and offered pamphlets on the dangers of Ritalin.
On Friday, charges were filed in Miami against the couple for smuggling more than 55,000lbs of cocaine and 3m lbs of marijuana into the US from 1976.