SQUINT
\skwˈɪnt], \skwˈɪnt], \s_k_w_ˈɪ_n_t]\
Definitions of SQUINT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(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"
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be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
By Princeton University
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(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"
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be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
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Fig.: Looking askance.
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To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
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To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
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To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
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To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
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A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
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Same as Hagioscope.
By Oddity Software
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The act or habit of looking obliquely or cross-eyed; strabismus.
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To see or look obliquely; to look with eyes half closed; to be cross-eyed.
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To cause to look obliquely; to half close (the eyes).
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Looking obliquely: cross-eyed.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Looking obliquely: having the vision distorted.
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To look obliquely: to have the vision distorted.
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To cause to squint.
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Act or habit of squinting: an oblique look: distortion of vision.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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