squint

Noun · Verb · Adjective

WordNet 3.0

cross one's eyes as if in strabismus“The children squinted so as to scare each other”Synonyms: squinch
be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light“The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield”

(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”Synonyms: askance askant asquint squint-eyed squinty sidelong

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]

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]

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]

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]