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Webster 1913 Edition
Squint
Squint
(skwĭnt)
, Adj.
1.
Looking obliquely.
Specifically:
(Med.)
, not having the optic axes coincident; – said of the eyes. See , 2.
Squint
, Noun.
2.
Fig.:
Looking askance.
“Squint suspicion.” Milton.
Squint
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Squinted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Squinting
.] 1.
To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
Some can
squint
when they will. Bacon.
2.
(Med.)
To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed.
3.
To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
Squint
,Verb.
T.
1.
To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely;
as, to
. squint
an eye2.
To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
He . . .
squints
the eye, and makes the harelid. Shakespeare
Squint
,Noun.
1.
The act or habit of squinting.
2.
(Med.)
A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
Webster 1828 Edition
Squint
SQUINT
,Adj.
1.
Looking obliquely; having the optic axes directed to different objects.2.
Looking with suspicion.SQUINT
,Verb.
I.
1.
To see obliquely.Some can squint when they will.
2.
To have the axes of the eyes directed to different objects.3.
To slope; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.SQUINT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To turn the eye to an oblique position; to look indirectly; as, to squint an eye.2.
To form the eye to oblique vision.He gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and make the hare-lip.
Definition 2024
squint
squint
English
Verb
squint (third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted)
- (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
- The children squinted to frighten each other.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter IX”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
- (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
- The Forum
- Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
- The Forum
- (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
- (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
- to squint an eye
Translations
to look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight
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to look or glance sideways
to look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions
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Noun
squint (plural squints)
- An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
- The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
- He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
- A quick or sideways glance.
- A short look.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops
- --And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
- --Give us a squint at her, says I.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops
- A hagioscope.
- (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
Translations
expression in which the eyes are partly closed
look of eyes which are turned in different directions, like in strabismus
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quick or sideways glance
short look
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hagioscope — see hagioscope
offset angle of transmission
Adjective
squint