Definition of squint

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Squint (v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye..

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Sken :: Sken (v. i.) To squint.
Cross-eyed :: Cross-eyed (a.) Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
Squint :: Squint (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
Goggle :: Goggle (v. i.) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting..
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
Asquint :: Asquint (adv.) With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint..
Strabotomy :: Strabismus (n.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye..
Awry :: Awry (adv. & a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry..
Straddled :: Strabotomy (n.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
Cockeye :: Cockeye (n.) A squinting eye.
Squinting :: Squinted (imp. & p. p.) of Squin.
Gley :: Gley (v. i.) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
Hagioscope :: Hagioscope (n.) An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint..
Squinted :: Squint (n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
Skelly :: Skelly (v. i.) To squint.
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
Squint :: Squint (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2..
Squinting :: Squintifego (a.) Squinting.
Askew :: Askew (adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry..
Squint :: Squinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squin.
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