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Definition of Squinch
1. Noun. A small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire).
2. Verb. Crouch down.
3. Verb. Draw back, as with fear or pain. "She flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
Generic synonyms: Move
Specialized synonyms: Retract, Shrink Back
Derivative terms: Flinch, Wince, Wince
4. Verb. Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus. "The children squinted so as to scare each other"
Generic synonyms: Grimace, Make A Face, Pull A Face
Derivative terms: Squint, Squinter
Definition of Squinch
1. 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.
Definition of Squinch
1. Noun. (architecture) 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. ¹
2. Verb. to scrunch up (one's face) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squinch
1. to squint [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: squint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squinch
Literary usage of Squinch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medieval Architecture: Its Origins and Development, with Lists of Monuments by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1908)
"squinch of Omm-es-Zeitoun (c. 282 AD) (From Rivoira, ... This device is known as
a squinch (111. 74). Obviously the smaller the scale and the larger the ..."
2. Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed by Gelett Burgess (1914)
"squinch, v. To watch and wait, hoping things will turn one's own way; to anticipate.
No squinch like the sailor's, sniffing the weather from the ..."
3. Gothic Architecture in France, England, and Italy by Thomas Graham Jackson (1915)
"An obvious improvement was to alter the form of the broach to a gable, which
fitted the squinch arch better, and by saving material did not load it so much. ..."
4. Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture: With Some Notice of Similar Or Related by Arthur Charles Champneys (1910)
"As a matter of fact, the masonry of the Tower below the squinch shews no sign of
having ... The arches forming the squinch have suffered a little (probably, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"And, as before stated, with the ribbed vault we enter the Gothic era. The dome
had for its support pendentives, either the spherical or the "squinch" (see ..."
6. Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico by Sidney David Markman (1984)
"The ribs were applied to the surface of the squinch, and so are actually decorative
rather than structural. The cluster of ribs emerging from the bracket ..."
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