squinch


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Synonyms for squinch

to peer with the eyes partly closed

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Synonyms for squinch

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

Related Words

crouch down

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draw back, as with fear or pain

cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

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In the middle panel of this squinch stands a lady with her head in profile, and with both her hands raised as if to convey something to the seated male figure in the panel before her (figures 3 and 4).
One such is of two warehouses, which foregrounds a stone corner on - Eberle Street against iron gutters and cantilevered windows of lofts apposite on the corner of Tempest Hey, so as to appear as if the stone quoins, squinch and cornice conjoin metal panels into one tectonic compound.
Squinch can improve on his second-place effort last time by winning the European Breeders' Fund "National Hunt" Novices' Hurdle Qualifier at Towcester (1.25).
The senor did his very best to squinch himself into his 50% of the space, but with little success.
The asexually reproducing Squinch suffer from a heritable disease threatening the existence of their entire ruling family.
"It's those little bits that sit down there in the air sacs and cause long-term damage like cancer and stuff, but it also irritates those teeny tiny airways and make them squinch (up), which is what happens in asthma, and you can't get the air in and out of the lungs," Hendrickson said.
Take it from her ear and hold it in front of her like a sword hilt and squinch her face.
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making: and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry-eating in late September.
It is only one of many analytical techniques like LTV (life time value), cost to acquire a customer, break-even analysis, "squinch" (-square inch analysis) and literally dozens of economic ratios used to measure the operational and financial health of a catalog.
She says she can't "squinch the sperrit." Then Elijah asked Mr.
Actually he has fallen asleep on the living-room sofa, as he always does if he drinks a beer with lunch, and it is merely a ceiling light fixture that is causing his eyes to squinch. It is not August but March.
There's this thing called the squinch. If I ever photograph you, ask me about it.
For example the early 11th century dome of Notre-Dame du Port, Clermont-Ferand, uses squinch arches to fit the dome to the square space, which may well have been learned from the Great Mosque in Cordoba and the arches at tribune level in the nave are horseshoe arches, and decorative tiles and coloured voussoirs on the apse reinforce the sense of Arabic influence.