Squinted

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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.
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              Some can squint when they will.       --Bacon.
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     2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be
        cross-eyed.
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     3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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     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.
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     5. To look with the eyes partly closed.
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