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Dictionary Results for squint:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

            Some can squint when they will.       --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   5. To look with the eyes partly closed.
      [PJC]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

            He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.
                                                  --Shak.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Squint \Squint\, n.
   1. The act or habit of squinting.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes;
      strabismus.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.
      [1913 Webster]

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