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n. A structure, such as a section of vaulting or corbeling, set diagonally across the interior angle between two walls to provide a transition from a square to a polygonal or more nearly circular base on which to construct a dome.

v. To squeeze, twist, or draw together: squinched her eyes shut.

n. A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure; as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.

v. to scrunch up (one's face)

n. A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

n. In architecture, a small arch, or a series of arches, corbeled out, thrown across an angle, as in a square tower to support the side of a superimposed octagon.

n. A dialectal variant of quince.

v. crouch down

v. cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

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

v. draw back, as with fear or pain

"Now ef you years me toot twice lak a squinch-owl, you knows dat you got ter go en tell Miss Lou dat"

squinched    squinches    squinching   

crouch    bend    bow    stoop    grimace    make a face    pull a face   

sconce    sconcheon   

short-eared    light-grey    resetting    tick-tock    Evy    blue-nosed    meeting-room    scritch    lithesome    unprofaned