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Definitions for: Squint
[n] abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
[adj] (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"
[v] partly close one's eyes; "The children squinted to frighten each other"
[v] be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
Webster (1913) Definition: Squint, v. i.
To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to
have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a
squinting toward hypnotism. --The Forum.
Squint, a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin,
schuinisch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf.
Askant, Askance, Asquint.]
1. Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the
optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint,
n., 2.
2. Fig.: Looking askance. ``Squint suspicion.'' --Milton.
Squint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Squinting.]
1. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a
furtive glance.
Some can squint when they will. --Bacon.
2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to
be cross-eyed.
3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
Squint, v. t.
1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as,
to squint an eye.
2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.
--Shak.
Squint, n.
1. The act or habit of squinting.
2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes;
strabismus.
3. (Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.
Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, cross one's eyes, indirect, sidelong, squinch, squint-eyed, squinty, strabismus
See Also: abnormal condition, abnormalcy, abnormality, convergent strabismus, crossed eye, cross-eye, divergent strabismus, esotropia, exotropia, grimace, look, make a face, pull a face, walleye
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