1.
[syn: squinched, squinting]
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. To look with the eyes partly closed.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squinting \Squint"ing\ (skw[i^]nt"[i^]ng),
a. & n. from Squint, v. -- Squint"ing*ly, adv.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
squinting
adj 1: having eyes half closed in order to see better;
"squinched eyes" [syn: squinched, squinting]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "squinting":
agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint,
astigmatic, awry, blink-eyed, blinking, blinky, catawampous,
catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, farsighted, longsighted,
mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, poor-sighted, presbyopic,
shortsighted, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinch-eyed,
squint-eyed, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, wamper-jawed,
winking, wry, yaw-ways