squint

Meanings

Verb

• To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
• To look or glance sideways.
• To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
• To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
• To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
• To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.

Noun

• An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
• The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
• A quick or sideways glance.
• A short look.
• A hagioscope.
• The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.

Adjective

• Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
• askew, not level

Related

Similar words

• skelly

Origin

• Derived from asquint.