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noun

Squint n.

The act or habit of squinting.

(Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

(Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.

verb

Squint v. t.

To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.

To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. "He... squints the eye, and makes the harelid."

Squint v. i. (past & past part. squinted; pres. part. squinting)

To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. "Some can squint when they will."

(Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed.

To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

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."

To look with the eyes partly closed.

adjective

Squint adj.

Looking obliquely. Specifically: (Med.), Not having the optic axes coincident; said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.

Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion."

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"Squint" Quotes from Famous Books

... opened wide, and excitedly he demanded to know all the particulars of Ree's adventure. Tom Fish whistled a long, low note and almost closing his eyes, he looked toward Ree with a squint which was more expressive of his astonishment and interest than words could ...

— Far Past the Frontier • James A. Braden

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... men to live in this very spot!" Kayerts nodded, "Yes, it is a consolation to think of that." They seemed to forget their dead predecessor; but, early one day, Carlier went out and replanted the cross firmly. "It used to make me squint whenever I walked that way," he explained to Kayerts over the morning coffee. "It made me squint, leaning over so much. So I just planted it upright. And solid, I promise you! I suspended myself with both hands to the cross-piece. Not a move. Oh, I ...

— Tales of Unrest • Joseph Conrad

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... away that cigarette and lighted another, and turned aggrievedly upon a dried little man who came up with the open expectation of using the truck upon which Luck was sitting uncomfortably. There was the squint of long looking against sun and wind at a far skyline in the dried little man's face. There was a certain bow in his legs, and there were various other signs which Luck read instinctively as he got up. He smiled his smile, and the dried ...

— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

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... paint Daniel Lambert or the living skeleton, the pig-faced lady or the Siamese twins, so that nobody can mistake them, is an exploit within the reach of a sign painter. A thirdrate artist might give us the squint of Wilkes, and the depressed nose and protuberant cheeks of Gibbon. It would require a much higher degree of skill to paint two such men as Mr. Canning and Sir Thomas Lawrence, so that nobody who had ever seen them ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay

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... of their sayings and doings, which she could have made far more interesting to Miss Browning and Miss Phoebe if she had not been conscious of her stepmother's critical listening. She had to tell it all with a mental squint; the surest way to spoil a narration. She was also subject to Mrs. Gibson's perpetual corrections of little statements which she knew to be facts. But what vexed her most of all was Mrs. Gibson's last speech before the ...

— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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