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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SQUINT, a.
1. Looking obliquely; having the optic axes directed to different objects.
2. Looking with suspicion.
SQUINT, v.i.
1. To see obliquely.
Some can squint when they will.
2. To have the axes of the eyes directed to different objects.
3. To slope; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
SQUINT, v.t.
1. To turn the eye to an oblique position; to look indirectly; as, to squint an eye.
2. To form the eye to oblique vision.
He gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and make the hare-lip.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English asquint Date: 1579 1. of an eye looking or tending to look obliquely or askance (as with envy or disdain) 2. of the eyes not having the visual axes parallel ; crossed II. verb Date: 1599 intransitive verb 1. a. to have an indirect bearing, reference, or aim b. to deviate from a true line 2. a. to look in a squint-eyed manner b. to be cross-eyed c. to look or peer with eyes partly closed transitive verb to cause (an eye) to squint • squinter noun • squintingly adverb III. noun Date: circa 1652 1. strabismus 2. an instance of squinting 3. hagioscope • squinty adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v., n., & adj. --v. 1 intr. have the eyes turned in different directions, have a squint. 2 intr. (often foll. by at) look obliquely or with half-closed eyes. 3 tr. close (one's eyes) quickly, hold (one's eyes) half-shut. --n. 1 = STRABISMUS. 2 a stealthy or sidelong glance. 3 colloq. a glance or look (had a squint at it). 4 an oblique opening through the wall of a church affording a view of the altar. 5 a leaning or inclination towards a particular object or aim. --adj. 1 squinting. 2 looking different ways. Phrases and idioms: squint-eyed 1 squinting. 2 malignant, ill-willed. Derivatives: squinter n. squinty adj. Etymology: ASQUINT: (adj.) perh. f. squint-eyed f. obs. squint (adv.) f. ASQUINT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Squint 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Squint 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Squint 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Squint 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(squints, squinting, squinted) 1. If you squint at something, you look at it with your eyes partly closed. The girl squinted at the photograph... The bright sunlight made me squint... He squinted his eyes and looked at the floor. VERB: V prep/adv, V, V n 2. If someone has a squint, their eyes look in different directions from each other. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Look askant, look askance, look obliquely.

Moby Thesaurus

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