[skwint] 
,| 1. | to look with the eyes partly closed. |
| 2. | Ophthalmology. to be affected with strabismus; be cross-eyed. |
| 3. | to look or glance obliquely or sidewise; look askance. |
| 4. | to make or have an indirect reference to or bearing on; tend or incline toward (usually fol. by toward, at, etc.). |
| 5. | to close (the eyes) partly in looking: The baby squinted its eyes at the bright lights. |
| 6. | to cause to squint; cause to look obliquely. |
| 7. | an act or instance of squinting. |
| 8. | Ophthalmology. a condition of the eye consisting in noncoincidence of the optic axes; strabismus. |
| 9. | Informal. a quick glance: Let me have a squint at that paper. |
| 10. | a looking obliquely or askance. |
| 11. | an indirect reference. |
| 12. | an inclination or tendency, esp. an oblique or perverse one. |
| 13. | Also called hagioscope. (in a church) a small opening in a wall giving a view of the altar. |
| 14. | looking obliquely; looking with a side glance; looking askance. |
| 15. | Ophthalmology. (of the eyes) affected with strabismus. |
| squint (skwĭnt) v. squint·ed, squint·ing, squints v. intr.
[Short for asquint.] squint'er n., squint'y adj. |
| stra·bis·mus (strə-bĭz'məs) n. A visual defect in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles. Also called squint. [New Latin, from Greek strabismos, condition of squinting, from strabizein, to squint, from strabos, squinting; see streb(h)- in Indo-European roots.] stra·bis'mal (-məl), stra·bis'mic (-mĭk) adj. |
squint (skwĭnt)
n.
See strabismus.
