Squint /(skwĭnt)/

1. Looking obliquely. (Med.)
2. Looking askance. Fig.:

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.

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.

5. To look with the eyes partly closed.

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.

1. The act or habit of squinting.
2. A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. (Med.)
3. Same as Hagioscope. (Arch.)