Definition of squint

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Squint (v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.

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Skew :: Skew (v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously..
Goggle :: Goggle (v. i.) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting..
Gley :: Gley (v. i.) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
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..
Squint-eye :: Squinter (n.) One who squints.
Askew :: Askew (adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry..
Squinter :: Squint (n.) Same as Hagioscope.
Squint-eyed :: Squint-eye (n.) An eye that squints.
Cockeye :: Cockeye (n.) A squinting eye.
Squinted :: Squint (n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
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..
Squint :: Squint (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2..
Squint :: Squint (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
Squinting :: Squinted (imp. & p. p.) of Squin.
Sken :: Sken (v. i.) To squint.
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..
Straddled :: Strabotomy (n.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
Squint :: Squint (n.) The act or habit of squinting.
Squinting :: Squintifego (a.) Squinting.
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