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Squint   /skwɪnt/   Listen
noun
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.


verb
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."


Squint  v. i.  (past & past part. squinted; pres. part. squinting)  
1.
To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. "Some can squint when they will."
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.
4.
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."
5.
To look with the eyes partly closed.


adjective
Squint  adj.  
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."





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"Squint" Quotes from Famous Books



... with you. Maybe he's helping with the broncoes. I'll take a squint here in back—" as the Kid stepped into the yard he saw Bud—standing silent, widened eyes staring at the sky. The Kid started back ...
— The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River - or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers • Willard F. Baker
... not stand upright there. The eight Utrecht armchairs had their backs to the wall; a round table in the centre supported the liqueur case; and above the mantelpiece could be seen the portrait of Pere Bouvard. The shades, reappearing in the imperfect light, made the mouth grin and the eyes squint, and a slight mouldiness on the cheek-bones seemed to produce the illusion of real whiskers. The guests traced a resemblance between him and his son, and Madame Bordin added, glancing at Bouvard, that he must have been ...
— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert
... us ould Oirish birds wid such chaff! Ye'd loike us to take it,—and take no offence. And thin it's yourself as 'ud just have the laugh. It may do for the North, but won't suit us down South; So, PARNELL, my boy, take a squint at its mouth! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 • Various
... bust with a coloured face, which for some reason or other was covered with green gauze." "That," said Mr. Lyon, "is the eminent George Whitfield . . . Providence ordained that the good man should squint; and my daughter has not yet learned to bear with this infirmity."—Felix Holt, ...
— George Eliot Centenary, November 1919 • Coventry Libraries Committee
... followed, and while they sipped the enlivening decoction, Copernicus explained his plans touching the patenting of his phonograph and bicycle. When he concluded his relation, the knight leaned back and gazed at him with an affectionate squint. ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye


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