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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Squinting  \Squint"ing\, 
  a.  &  n.  from  {Squint},  v.  --  {Squint"ing*ly},  adv 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  squinting 
  adj  :  having  eyes  half  closed  in  order  to  see  better;  "squinched 
  eyes"  [syn:  {squinched}] 




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