a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

crouch down

draw back, as with fear or pain; she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf

[ Syn: flinch , funk , cringe , shrink , wince , recoil , quail ]

cross ones eyes as if in strabismus; The children squinted so as to scare each other

[ Syn: squint ]