4 definitions found 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]: Squinting \Squint"ing\ (skw[i^]nt"[i^]ng), a. & n. from {Squint}, v. -- {Squint"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: squinting adj : having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched eyes" [syn: {squinched}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 37 Moby Thesaurus words for "squinting": agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, astigmatic, awry, blink-eyed, blinking, blinky, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, farsighted, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, poor-sighted, presbyopic, shortsighted, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, wamper-jawed, winking, wry, yaw-ways
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