| Squint 1. (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint. 2. (n.) Fig.: Looking askance. 3. (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. 4. (v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed. 5. (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. 6. (v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye. 7. (v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. 8. (n.) The act or habit of squinting. 9. (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. 10. (n.) Same as Hagioscope. Thesaurus Entries aberration, cast, circuitousness, cock the eye, convergent strabismus, cross-eye, cross-eyedness, crosswiseness, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence, esotropia, excursion, exotropia, goggle, heterotropia, indirection, indirectness, look askance, look asquint, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, skew, skewness, squinch, squint the eye, strabismus, transverseness, upward strabismus, vagary, walleye |