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   Squint (skwĭnt), a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinsch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly.  Cf. Askant, Askance, Asquint.]
   1. Looking obliquely. Specifically: (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
   
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   2. Fig.:  Looking askance. “Squint suspicion.”  Milton.
   
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   Squint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting.]
   1. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
   
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   Some can squint when they will. Bacon.
   
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   2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed.
   
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   3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
   
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   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.
   
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   5. To look with the eyes partly closed.
   
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   Squint, v. t.
   1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, “to squint an eye”.
   
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   2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
   
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   He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. Shak.
   
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   Squint, n.
   1. The act or habit of squinting.
   
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   2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
   
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   3. (Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.
   
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