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Squint   /skwɪnt/   Listen
Squint

noun
1.
Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes.  Synonym: strabismus.
2.
The act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed.
verb
(past & past part. squinted; pres. part. squinting)
1.
Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus.  Synonym: squinch.
2.
Be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus.
3.
Partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light.
adjective
1.
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.  Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squinty.  "Sidelong glances"



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"Squint" Quotes from Famous Books



... about the size of an onion top, as the servants were wont to describe it. Her face was full of wrinkles and her teeth had begun to loosen. Her eyes had also suffered, and considerably, too. She had to squint frequently when she cared to look off at a certain distance. Her character was the only thing that ...
— Friars and Filipinos - An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, - 'Noli Me Tangere.' • Jose Rizal
... day the Carrier come, and that was the day o' the week for us folk then. He had a blue wagon, had George, with scarlet wheels and a green awning; and his horse was a red-and-white skewbald and jingled bells on its bridle. A small bandy-legged man was George, wi' a jolly face and a squint, and as he drives up he toots on a tin trumpet wi' red tassels on it. Didn't it bring the crowd running! and didn't the crowd bring HIM to a standstill, some holding old Scarlet Runner by the bridle, and others standing ...
— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon
... a young man stepped out—a young man with a small, blond, persevering mustache, a rather thin, esthetic, melancholy face, and a myopic squint. He wore a Balmacaan of Scotch tweed and ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
... Hypnotist has borrowed a silver-handled umbrella from the audience, and thrust it before the faces of one or two loutish-looking youths, who immediately begin to squint horribly and follow the silver-top with their noses, till they knock ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 8, 1892 • Various
... poetry, there is no music in verse which has not in it sufficient fulness and ripeness of meaning, sufficient adequacy of emotion or of thought, to abide the analysis of any other than the purblind scrutiny of prepossession or the squint-eyed ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall


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