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
 

Squinting \Squint"ing\ (skw[i^]nt"[i^]ng), a. & n. from Squint, v. -- Squint"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "squinting": agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, astigmatic, awry, blink-eyed, blinking, blinky, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, farsighted, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, poor-sighted, presbyopic, shortsighted, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, wamper-jawed, winking, wry, yaw-ways

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

squinting adj : having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched eyes" [syn: squinched]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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)
 

Squinting \Squint"ing\, a. & n. from Squint, v. -- Squint"ing*ly, adv.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)