Squinting

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.
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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.
        [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.
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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