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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. abnormal alignment of one or both eyes;
[syn: strabismus, squint]

2. the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed;


VERB (3)

1. cross one's eyes as if in strabismus;
- Example: "The children squinted so as to scare each other"
[syn: squint, squinch]

2. be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus;

3. partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light;
- Example: "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy;
- Example: "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen
- Example: "sidelong glances"
[syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] Some can squint when they will. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed. [1913 Webster] 3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. [1913 Webster] 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. --The Forum. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 5. To look with the eyes partly closed. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Squint \Squint\ (skw[i^]nt), a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinsch, 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Squint \Squint\, v. t. 1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. [1913 Webster] He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Squint \Squint\, n. 1. The act or habit of squinting. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. [1913 Webster] 3. (Arch.) Same as Hagioscope. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

squint adj 1: (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, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong] n 1: abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: strabismus, squint] 2: the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed v 1: cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other" [syn: squint, squinch] 2: be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus 3: partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "squint": aberration, cast, circuitousness, cock the eye, convergent strabismus, cross-eye, cross-eyedness, crosswiseness, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence, esotropia, excursion, exotropia, goggle, heterotropia, indirection, indirectness, look askance, look asquint, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, skew, skewness, squinch, squint the eye, strabismus, transverseness, upward strabismus, vagary, walleye