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Definition of Squinching
1. squinch [v] - See also: squinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squinching
Literary usage of Squinching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed by Gelett Burgess (1914)
"You squinch the stock market for a rise or fall; but no matter how you squinch
US Steel Common, there's always someone squinching it the other way. ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"He had the unusual accomplishment (try it and prove) of closing either eye
without "squinching," and without any apparent effort, though sometimes in strong ..."
3. Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern (1883)
"He pokes out his chin to keep his spectacles on, and yet looks over the top of
his spectacles, squinching up his eyes, so that you cannot see your way into ..."
4. Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern (1883)
"He- pokes out his chin to keep his spectacles on, and yet looks over the top of
his spectacles, squinching np his eyes, so that yon. cannot see your way ..."
5. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth by Maria Edgeworth (1894)
"He pokes out his chin to keep the spectacles on, and yet looks over the top of
his spectacles, squinching ..."
6. Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps (1915)
"He had the unusual accomplishment (try it and prove) of closing either eye
without "squinching," and without any apparent effort, though sometimes on the ..."
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