1. crouch - Noun
2. crouch - Verb
3. Crouch - Proper noun
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.
To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
To sign with the cross; to bless.
To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhy comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? Robert Browning
We shall march prospering,not thro' his presence Songs may inspirit us,not from his lyre Deeds will be done,while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire. Robert Browning
Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry. Alfred Austin
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune. Michel de Montaigne
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. Ishmael Reed
The young men listen dutifully, for the most part, and from time to time some of them even take the trouble to go over to the college library, and dig up one or another of his novels, and crouch there, among the stacks, flipping impatiently through the pages, looking for parts that sound true. Michael Chabon