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favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab. 2 Sam. xx. 11. [The painter] has favored her squint admirably. Swift.

duced by the fermentation of plants, and not originally contained in them. These were the quintessences of the alchenists. Ure.

In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.

boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle. Gimlet eye, a squint-eye. [Colloq.] Wright.

To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. [Scot.] Jamieson.

To squint; to stare. [Obs.]

A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.

h to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.

A hundred weight; a quintal.

. It is said to have consisted originally of ten months, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December, having a total of 304 days. Numa added two months, Januarius at the beginning of the year, and Februarius at the end, making in all 355 days. He also ordered an inte…

To squint. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To squint. [Prov. Eng.]

To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. Beau & Fl.

isfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship. Puttenham. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.

To squint. [Obs.] Shak.

contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.

The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

Squint-eyed. [Prov. Eng.]

A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.