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verb

Crouch v. t.

To sign with the cross; to bless. (Obs.)

To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear. "She folded her arms across her chest, And crouched her head upon her breast."

Crouch v. i. (past & past part. crouched; pres. part. crouching)

To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. "Now crouch like a cur."

To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. "A crouching purpose." "Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor?"

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crouch" Quotes from Famous Books

... tramping the weary ten miles to Molteno with the enemy taking long shots at them from innumerable points of vantage. Their progress was necessarily slow, for sometimes they had to hide in cornfields, to crouch among boulders, and occasionally to fall prone to earth when shells came screaming and bursting along their line of route. Afterwards they would rise again, still holding their life in their hands, and plod on in the expectation that every step would be their ...

— South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) - From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, - 15th Dec. 1899 • Louis Creswicke

... content to hem a kerchief or mark a sampler, Moll would escape to the Bear Garden, and there enjoy the sport of baiting, whose loyal patron she remained unto the end. That which most bitterly affronted her was the magpie talk of the wenches. 'Why,' she would ask in a fury of indignation, 'why crouch over the fire with a pack of gossips, when the highway invites you to romance? Why finger a distaff, when a quarterstaff comes ...

— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley

... your elders, Till they have said— We would hear Master Milton: He hath to speak. [To Milton.] What think you of the man, The king, that arm'd the red, apostate herd In Ireland against our English throats? Was it well done; deserves it that we crouch? ...

— Cromwell • Alfred B. Richards

... married. And she demurely confessed to him that Mrs. Hall and several others of the matrons had enthusiastically admired her form one day when in for a cold dip in Carmel river. They had got around her, and called her Venus, and made her crouch ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... and gullies are black with crows, And they feast on the flesh of the brave; But the forest is loud with the howls of our foes For those whom they never can save! Let us crouch with our faces down to our knees, And hide in the dark of our hair; For we will not return where the camp-fires burn, And see what is smouldering there— What is smouldering, mouldering there! Where the sad winds sigh— The dead ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

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