Squint

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Fig.: Looking askance.

II. Squint ·noun The act or habit of squinting.

III. Squint ·vi To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

IV. Squint ·noun ·same·as Hagioscope.

V. Squint ·vt To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.

VI. Squint ·noun A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

VII. Squint ·vi To have the axes of the eyes not coincident;

— to be cross-eyed.

VIII. Squint ·vi To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.

IX. Squint ·vt To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an Eye.

X. Squint ·adj Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident;

— said of the eyes. ·see Squint, ·noun, 2.

XI. Squint ·add. ·vi To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.

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