Crossword-Solution: SQUINT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Squint | a. | Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2. |
| Squint | n. | Fig.: Looking askance. |
| Squint | v. i. | To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. |
| Squint | v. i. | To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed. |
| Squint | v. i. | To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. |
| Squint | v. t. | To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye. |
| Squint | v. t. | To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. |
| Squint | n. | The act or habit of squinting. |
| Squint | n. | A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. |
| Squint | n. | Same as Hagioscope. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SQUINT | anagram | QUINTS |
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Sentences with SQUINT (5)
Priest; although the lady did murmur one day when she took Bowers home in her carriage, “How handsome your afternoon girl would be if she did not have that unfortunate squint; it gives her that vacant Swede look, like an animal.” That amused Bowers.
There’s no entrance to it that way, but it’s worth seeing, even from the outside.” “Yes, and I might get a squint at my patient,” laughed the doctor, “for he prefers to lie on an ottoman right at the end of the conservatory amid all those blood-red poinsettias; it would give me the creeps.
Askant, Squint.] With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.
Now, therefore, he nodded his approval of Squint Eye's proposal, feeling that whatever was in Ward's mind would be more likely to work out to Skipper Simms' interests than some unadvised act of Skipper Simms himself.
SENTENCES ON THE FOSTER-BROTHERS There dwelt at Reykjaholar a man named Thorgils, the son of Ari, the son of Mar, the son of Atli the Red, the son of Ulf Squint-Eye, the first settler at Reykjanes.
Quotes with SQUINT (3)
But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on the computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so. You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a hu…
Friendship is about more than facts. It's about knowing what someone is thinking, or knowing enough to know that you don't. But I guess it's also about not letting too much time go by without asking them questions, so you don't end up looking at them one afternoon, the sun so bright you have to squint, realizing that you hardly recognize the person they've become.
Get out of doors, Strange. Breathe air, see things. A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).