Hypertext Webster Gateway: "askance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Askance \A*skance"\, v. t.
To turn aside. [Poet.]
O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from
their own misdeeds askance their eyes! --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Askance \A*skance"\, Askant \A*skant"\, adv. [Cf. D. schuin,
schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf.
{Asquint}.]
Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy,
or suspicion.
They dart away; they wheel askance. --Beattie.
My palfrey eyed them askance. --Landor.
Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
--Gladstone.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
askance
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" [syn: {askant}, {asquint}, {squint}, {squint-eyed},
{squinty}, {sidelong}]
adv 1: with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the
offer"
2: with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the
way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
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