Laid yarns are couched in place with yarn of the same or contrasting colour. The so-called Sibylline oracles are couched in classical hexameter verses. Daniel Engber wrote in "Slate" that the speech "was couched in elaborate and perplexing disavowals". The work has been described as "a densely written piece couched in dry, scientific terminology". In Syria, jackets were couched with stylised flowers and trees. The resulting constitution was couched in more centralist terms than intended. Nevertheless, in their correspondence the older man's devotion was couched in extravagant terms. That is, the Maharal couched kabbalistic ideas in non-kabbalistic language. The revelations were not God's words verbatim, but "couched in language suitable to Joseph's time". Broad concepts that are couched in thermodynamic terms include redox potential, acidity, phase changes. The relationship between Diocletian and Maximian was quickly couched in religious terms. Other ordinances were couched in terms of public safety. She couched her lance and scattered the enemy. The furor after this play was couched in the strongest anti-semitic terms. The deckle is then removed and the newly formed sheet is "couched" (set) onto felts.