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noun

Squint n.

The act or habit of squinting.

(Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

(Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.

verb

Squint v. t.

To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.

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)

To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. "Some can squint when they will."

(Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed.

To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

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."

To look with the eyes partly closed.

adjective

Squint adj.

Looking obliquely. Specifically: (Med.), Not having the optic axes coincident; said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.

Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion."

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Etymology of 'Squint'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squint" Quotes from Famous Books

... serving-wench, who was not overyoung, but had the foulest and worst-favoured visnomy was ever seen; for she had a nose flattened sore, a mouth all awry, thick lips and great ill-set teeth; moreover, she inclined to squint, nor was ever without sore eyes, and had a green and yellow complexion, which gave her the air of having passed the summer not at Fiesole, but at Sinigaglia.[378] Besides all this, she was hipshot and ...

— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... was no one. Alas! How strange! Thus she stood. Then leaning forward carefully she scanned the mirror. "Ya! Ya! Since when has my face been like this? It is completely altered." As if she could repair the ravages to self and features squint-eyed she stood and gazed. To sight she seemed a woman of evil. "Hai! Ha!" She fell prostrate. "How now! How pitiful!" Like one crazed she arose. Her body writhed in pain, at the pit of the stomach. These stomach pains, of frequent occurrence, now seized her. Thus long she lay writhing ...

— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... its midst, nodding his head threateningly. His hat, thrust far back on his sandy hair, left in bold relief his long, thin face with its small eyes, which seemed now so close together that his glance had the effect of a squint. He scanned Birt narrowly. ...

— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)

... fat boy. 'You're her.' The boy grinned to add point to the compliment, and put his eyes into something between a squint and a cast, which there is reason to believe he intended ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... hinge. Now there are various kinds of hinges, moving in one direction, and the Maker of the eye might have made a hinge on which the eye would move up and down, or he might have given us a hinge that would bend right and left, in which case we should have been able merely to squint a little in two directions. But to enable one to see in every direction, there is only one kind of hinge that would answer the purpose—the ball and socket joint—and the Former of the eye has hung it with such a hinge, ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

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