Dictionary 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 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 |