Squint

Definition of Squint

Pronunciation: skwĭnt

a.	1.	(Med.) Looking obliquely.
	2.	Looking askance.
v. i.	1.	To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. [imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting.] 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.
	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.
	5.	To look with the eyes partly closed.
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.
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.

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