Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." Milton.
To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. Some can squint when they will. Bacon.
To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross- eyed.
To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. Shak.
The act or habit of squinting.
A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
Same as Hagioscope.
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