What is the meaning of Squint?

  • (v.i.) To have an indirect bearing, reference or implication; to have an allusion to or inclination towards, something.
  • (v.t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
  • (v.i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
  • (v.i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
  • (n.) The act or habit of squinting.
  • (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
  • (v.t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
  • (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
  • (n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
  • (v.i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint or awry or with a furtive glance.
  • (n.) Same as Hagioscope.
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MLAWebster's. "squint" 28 May 2011. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/squint/definitions/2065630>
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