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Squinting

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squint  (skwnt)
v. squint·ed, squint·ing, squints
v.intr.
1. To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight.
2.
a. To look or glance sideways.
b. To look askance, as in disapproval.
3. To have an indirect reference or inclination.
4. To be affected with strabismus.
v.tr.
1. To cause to squint.
2. To close (the eyes) partly while looking.
n.
1. The act or an instance of squinting.
2.
a. A sideways glance.
b. A quick look or glance: Take a squint at this view.
3. An oblique reference or inclination.
4. See strabismus.
5. A hagioscope.
adj.
1. Looking obliquely or askance.
2. Squint-eyed.
[Short for asquint.]
squinter n.
squinty adj.
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Adj.1.squinting - having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched eyes"
squinched
shut, closed - used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"


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Let them HEAR me chattering and sighing with winter-cold, all those poor squinting knaves around me
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Young Cranch was not exactly the balancing point between the wit and the idiot,-- verging slightly towards the latter type, and squinting so as to leave everything in doubt about his sentiments except that they were not of a forcible character.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
This hero, radiant with rapturous joy, who had the distinguished honour of making the people forget the speech of Van Systens, and even the presence of the Stadtholder, was Isaac Boxtel, who saw, carried on his right before him, the black tulip, his pretended daughter; and on his left, in a large purse, the hundred thousand guilders in glittering gold pieces, towards which he was constantly squinting, fearful of losing sight of them for one moment.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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