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Squint
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Same as Hagioscope.
(2):
(a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; - said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
(3):
(v. i.) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
(4):
(n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
(5):
(v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
(6):
(v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
(7):
(v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; - to be cross-eyed.
(8):
(n.) The act or habit of squinting.
(9):
(v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
(10):
(v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
(11):
(n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Squint'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/squint.html. 1828.
