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SQUINT
askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong
(adjective) (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”
squint
(noun) the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed
strabismus, squint
(noun) abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
squint, squinch
(verb) cross one’s eyes as if in strabismus; “The children squinted so as to scare each other”
squint
(verb) partly close one’s eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; “The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield”
squint
(verb) be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
squint (third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted)
(intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
(intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
(intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
(intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
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(intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
(transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
Synonyms
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Noun
squint (plural squints)
An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
A quick or sideways glance.
A short look.
A hagioscope.
(radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
Adjective
squint
Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
(Scottish) askew, not level
Anagrams
• quints
Source: Wiktionary
Squint, a. Etym: [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinisch, 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.
2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." Milton.
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. Some can squint when they will. Bacon.
2. (Med.)
Definition: To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross- eyed.
3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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. Shak.
Squint, n.
1. The act or habit of squinting.
2. (Med.)
Definition: A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
3. (Arch.)
Definition: Same as Hagioscope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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