squint : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: squint	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for squint
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squint adj (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances" Synonym(s): askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong n abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: strabismus, squint] the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed v cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other" Synonym(s): squint, squinch be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Squint \Squint\, v. i. To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something. Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism. --The Forum.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Squint \Squint\, a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinisch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf. {Askant}, {Askance}, {Asquint}.] 1. Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See {Squint}, n., 2. 2. Fig.: Looking askance. [bd]Squint suspicion.[b8] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Squint \Squint\, v. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Squint \Squint\, v. t. 1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye. 2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Squint \Squint\, n. 1. The act or habit of squinting. 2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. 3. (Arch.) Same as {Hagioscope}.