intransitive. To shrink or flinch for fear; to hesitate (esp. const. infinitive); to refrain.

To be disheartened, timid, fearful, loath; to hesitate from timidity.

intransitive. To shrink, flinch, take fright.

To be unwilling, hesitate; = argh, v.

to hang the wing (cf. hang, v. 4c): to hesitate, show timidity. Obsolete.

intransitive. To withdraw or draw back through lack of courage from one's word or from an engagement.

Hunting. To pull up at a hedge or other obstacle and look over before leaping; hence figurative to ‘look before one leaps’, hesitate at or shrink…