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Crouch

verb

(past & past part. crouched; pres. part. crouching)

Bend one's back forward from the waist on down. Synonyms: bend, bow, stoop. "She bowed before the Queen" , "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"

Sit on one's heels. Synonyms: hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat. "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"

noun

The act of bending low with the limbs close to the body.

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... exceedingly picturesque old facade, to which you pick your way through a narrow and tortuous street, - a street terminating, a little be- yond it, in the walk beside the river. An elegant Gothic doorway is let into the rusty-red brick-work, and strange little beasts crouch at the angles of the windows, which are surmounted by a tall graduated gable, pierced with a small orifice, where the large surface of brick, lifted out of the shadow of the street, looks yellow and faded. The whole thing is disfigured and decayed; but it is a capital subject ...

— A Little Tour in France • Henry James

... that ordinary standards were not rigidly applied to the extraordinarily fascinating. When Katie was laughingly telling of one of the Major's most interesting flirtations Ann's eyes had seemed to crouch back in that queer way they had. Katie had had an odd sense of Ann's disapproving of her—disapproving of her for her not disapproving of him. More than once Ann had given her that sense of ...

— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell

... his gates. He buries himself and companion in a thick grove of cedars, and they crouch to the very ground. Oh, how humble is the lord of millions! How all the endowments of the world fall off from a man in his last extremity! He shivers, he trembles—yea, he prays! Through his bloodshot ...

— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly

... and in other parts of the island where the population is comparatively numerous, these monkeys become so familiarised with the presence of man as to exhibit the utmost daring and indifference. A flock of them will take possession of a Palmyra palm; and so effectually can they crouch and conceal themselves among the leaves that, on the slightest alarm, the whole party becomes invisible in an instant. The presence of a dog, however, excites such an irrepressible curiosity that, in order to watch his movements, ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... sore? Temptation sharp? Thank God a second time! Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be ...

— Mysticism in English Literature • Caroline F. E. Spurgeon

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