6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Squint \Squint\ (skw[i^]nt), a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinsch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf. {Askant}, {Askance}, {Asquint}.] 1. Looking obliquely. Specifically: (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See {Squint}, n., 2. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." --Milton. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Squint \Squint\, v. t. 1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. [1913 Webster] He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Squint \Squint\, n. 1. The act or habit of squinting. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. [1913 Webster] 3. (Arch.) Same as {Hagioscope}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: squint adj : (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" [syn: {askance}, {askant}, {asquint}, {squint-eyed}, {squinty}, {sidelong}] n : abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: {strabismus}] v 1: partly close one's eyes; "The children squinted to frighten each other" [syn: {squinch}, {cross one's eyes}] 2: be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 39 Moby Thesaurus words for "squint": aberration, cast, circuitousness, cock the eye, convergent strabismus, cross-eye, cross-eyedness, crosswiseness, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence, esotropia, excursion, exotropia, goggle, heterotropia, indirection, indirectness, look askance, look asquint, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, skew, skewness, squinch, squint the eye, strabismus, transverseness, upward strabismus, vagary, walleye
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