'Squint' definitions:

Definition of 'squint'

From: WordNet
adjective
(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" [syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong]
noun
Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: strabismus, squint]
noun
The act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed
verb
Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other" [syn: squint, squinch]
verb
Be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
verb
Partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"

Definition of 'Squint'

From: GCIDE
  • Squint \Squint\, n.
  • 1. The act or habit of squinting. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Arch.) Same as Hagioscope. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Squint'

From: GCIDE
  • Squint \Squint\ (skw[i^]nt), a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinsch, 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Squint'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Some can squint when they will. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 5. To look with the eyes partly closed. [PJC]

Definition of 'Squint'

From: GCIDE
  • Squint \Squint\, v. t.
  • 1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. [1913 Webster]
  • He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'squint'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Squint'