Hypertext Webster Gateway: "squint"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Squint \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Squint \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Squint \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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Squint \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Squint \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
squint
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: {askance}, {askant}, {asquint}, {squint-eyed},
{squinty}, {sidelong}]
n : abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: {strabismus}]
v 1: partly close one's eyes; "The children squinted to frighten
each other" [syn: {squinch}, {cross one's eyes}]
2: be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
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