Anagrams of: UICKTHORNS_

• a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

• crouch down

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

• Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

• Plants used in making a quickset hedge

• The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

• Quitchgrass.

• A fast bowler.

• To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

• To quicken.

• a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

• any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

• an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

• informal terms for the nose

• a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

• any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

• an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

• the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks

• marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America

• marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone