2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." Milton.
SQUINT
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. Some can squint when they will. Bacon.
2. (Med.)
Defn: To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; — to be cross- eyed.
3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
SQUINT
Squint, v. t.
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.
SQUINT
Squint, n.