SQUINT


Meaning of SQUINT in English

noun fig.: looking askance.

2. squint ·noun the act or habit of squinting.

3. squint ·vi to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

4. squint ·noun ·same·as hagioscope.

5. squint ·vt to cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.

6. squint ·noun a want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

7. squint ·vi to have the axes of the eyes not coincident;

— to be cross-eyed.

8. squint ·vi to see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.

9. squint ·vt to turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.

10. squint ·adj looking obliquely. specifically (med.), not having the optic axes coincident;

— said of the eyes. ·see squint, ·noun, 2.

11. squint ·add. ·vi to have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.

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