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uely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.

An eye that squints. Spenser.

Looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant; as, squint-eyed praise; squint-eyed jealousy.

One who squints.

Squinting. [Obs. & R.]

a. & n. from Squint, v. -- Squint"ing*ly, adv.

t in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.] The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.

straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

A squinting eye. Forby.

Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.

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

r 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.

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

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