Squint

Squint - Other Definitions

• (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
  
  
• (n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
  
  
• (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
  
  
• (v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
  
  
• (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
  
  
• (v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
  
  
• (v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
  
  
• (n.) The act or habit of squinting.
  
  
• (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
  
  
• (n.) Same as Hagioscope.