Word Direct Answers

What does "squint" mean?

Squint: Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." Milton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. Some can squint when they will. Bacon.
  2. 3.(Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross- eyed.
  3. 4.To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
  4. 5.To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
  5. 6.To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. Shak.
  6. 7.The act or habit of squinting.
  7. 8.(Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
  8. 9.(Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.

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