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squint

 

  6  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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