About The Word Squint
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Squint
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What's The Definition Of Squint?
[n] abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
[adj] (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" [v] partly close one's eyes; "The children squinted to frighten each other" [v] be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus Synonyms | Synonyms for Squint: askance | askant | asquint | cross one's eyes | indirect | sidelong | squinch | squint-eyed | squinty | strabismus Related Terms | Find terms related to Squint: See Also | abnormal condition | abnormalcy | abnormality | convergent strabismus | crossed eye | cross-eye | divergent strabismus | esotropia | exotropia | grimace | look | make a face | pull a face | walleye Squint In Webster's Dictionary \Squint\, v. i.
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.
\Squint\, a. [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.) 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.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. 3. (Arch.) Same as {Hagioscope}. |
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