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Squint   /skwɪnt/   Listen
noun
Squint  n.  
1.
The act or habit of squinting.
2.
(Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
3.
(Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.


verb
Squint  v. t.  
1.
To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
2.
To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. "He... squints the eye, and makes the harelid."


Squint  v. i.  (past & past part. squinted; pres. part. squinting)  
1.
To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. "Some can squint when they will."
2.
(Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed.
3.
To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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."
5.
To look with the eyes partly closed.


adjective
Squint  adj.  
1.
Looking obliquely. Specifically: (Med.), Not having the optic axes coincident; said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
2.
Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion."





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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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