squint

squint
    adj 1: (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" [syn: {askance}, {askant}, {asquint}, {squint},
           {squint-eyed}, {squinty}, {sidelong}]
    n 1: abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: {strabismus},
         {squint}]
    2: the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed
    v 1: cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children
         squinted so as to scare each other" [syn: {squint},
         {squinch}]
    2: be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
    3: partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding
       light; "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"
    

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.
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   2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." --Milton.
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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.
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            Some can squint when they will.       --Bacon.
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   2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be
      cross-eyed.
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   3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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   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.
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   5. To look with the eyes partly closed.
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Squint \Squint\, v. t.
   1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as,
      to squint an eye.
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   2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
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            He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.
                                                  --Shak.
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Squint \Squint\, n.
   1. The act or habit of squinting.
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   2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes;
      strabismus.
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   3. (Arch.) Same as {Hagioscope}.
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39 Moby Thesaurus words for "squint":
      aberration, cast, circuitousness, cock the eye,
      convergent strabismus, cross-eye, cross-eyedness, crosswiseness,
      declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation,
      deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence,
      esotropia, excursion, exotropia, goggle, heterotropia, indirection,
      indirectness, look askance, look asquint, nonconformity,
      obliqueness, obliquity, skew, skewness, squinch, squint the eye,
      strabismus, transverseness, upward strabismus, vagary, walleye