Squint — Defs

01 a. Looking obliquely.

02 v. i. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.

imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting

1.
To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
“Some can squint when they will.” — Bacon.
2.
To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed.(Med.)
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.

03 v. t. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.

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.

04 n. The act or habit of squinting.