Katherine's meek And gentle spirit cowers beneath her eye, As spell-bound by some witch.

V. quail &c (fear) 860; be cowardly &c adj., be a coward &c n.; funk; cower, skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away &c (avoid) 623; show, the white feather.

Outoutand, like a brooding hen, Beside your sooty hearth-stone cower; Go, creep along the dirt, and pick Your way with your good walking-stick, Just three good miles an hour!]

But who art thou dost bear such a name, and wherefore cower and gasp ye?" Then stood the blind man with head out-thrust and awful arm upraised, before which Black Roger shrank and shrank to cower in the deeper shadow.