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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet Squint
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" [syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint-eyed,
squinty, sidelong]
n : abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: strabismus]
v 1: partly close one's eyes; "The children squinted to frighten
each other" [syn: squinch, cross one's eyes]
2: be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus

Moby Dictionary
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