squint

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1. squint - Noun

2. squint - Adjective

3. squint - Verb

4. squint - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Fig.: Looking askance.

To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.

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.

The act or habit of squinting.

A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

Same as Hagioscope.

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When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint. Lewis Carroll

I squint down at my feet and see that my metal plate is surrounded by blue waves that lap up over my boots. Slowly I raise my eyes and take in the water spreading out in every direction. I can only form one clear thought. This is no place for a girl on fire. Suzanne Collins

A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and the chiseled squint of the vetern. Steven Pressfield

Once when Harry asked Ed why they didn't go back to Toledo, Ed looked at him with that smartass squint and asked, "You ever been to Toledo?" John Updike

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better. Cat Deeley

Among the blind, the squint rules. Hindi Proverb

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