4 entries under this word

Squint

Squint, a.

adjective

[D. schuints, a slope, schuin, schwinsch, sloping, oblique, schuins, slopingly. Cf. ASKANT, ASKANCE, ASQUINT.]

Looking obliquely.
Not having the optic axes coincident;—said of the eyes; a defect occasioned by a permanent shortening of one of the lateral straight muscles, and a permanent elongation of its antagonist.
Looking with suspicion. Milton.

Squint, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. SQUINTED; p. pr. & vb. n. SQUINTING.]

Sense 1. To see obliquely.

Some can squint when they will. Bacon.

Sense 2. To have the axes of the eyes not coincident.

Sense 3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely; to slope.

Squint, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To turn to an oblique position; as, to squint an eye. 2. To cause to look with non-coincident optic axes. He gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the hare-lip. Shak.

Squint, n.

noun

n. 1. The act, or habit, of squinting.

A want of coincidences of the axes of the eyes.
(Arch.) An oblique opening in the wall of a church; especially, in medieval architecture, an opening so placed as to afford a view of the high altar from the transept or aisles.