couched

Lay down -- or "couched," is appropriate to the lion, the Arab name of which means "the coucher."

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Young, and myself pushed on to the place where he again couched; he seemed extremely savagehis eyes rolling, & his tail lashing, with one of his fore paws on a ladder which had drop'd from my

Sporting Sketches 2002

Observe, again, that the language in which these Beatitudes are couched is purposely fetched from the Old

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

While Levin’s reservations are reasonable, especially given the Pakistani government’s repeated double games with and capitulations to militants, they remain couched in a transactional view of the U.S.

Wonk Room » President’s Pakistan Aid Plan Represents Dramatic Shift 2009

It was not lost on Arabs and Muslims that George W. Bush, rather than speaking to them, spoke about them, in negative terms, and in terms couched as demands, and, in so doing, did them insult.

Bradley Burston: Mr. Obama, Have a Talk With These Israelis, and Soon 2009

Yeah, I suppose that was the idea couched behind that anonymous comment disguised as an advertisement for Mammoth Dog Beds.

Dogs Experience Jealousy Field Notes 2006

A single name couched in a terrified scream that chilled his blood to ice.

Thief Of Hearts Medeiros, Teresa 1994

Couch "d] Let the - reader observe how artfully the word couched is placed, so as to make the sound expressive of the sense, — others on the grass CouchM. —

Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson ... 1795

D'Antoni came across as a freewheeling soul, quick with a smile and a quip, every word couched in a disarming West Virginia drawl.

NYT > Home Page 2009

This kind of couched nativism really must be shouted down!

Firedoglake » Tidying Up: Walton Decision, G/J and Other Bits 2006