[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.
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Some can squint when they will. --Bacon.
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2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be
cross-eyed.
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3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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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.
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5. To look with the eyes partly closed.
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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.
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2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." --Milton.
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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.
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2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
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He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.
--Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squint \Squint\, n.
1. The act or habit of squinting.
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2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes;
strabismus.
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3. (Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.
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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