v. i. - To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
v. i. - To fly off; to turn aside.
v. t. - To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
v. t. - To draw back from; to deny from fear.
n. - A looking aside or askance.
v. i. & t. - To grow or make pale.