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]

Source: 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. [1913 Webster]

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]

Source: 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. [1913 Webster]

2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. [1913 Webster]

He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Source: 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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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

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

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]

noun

abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: strabismus]

verb

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

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)