squint

verb squints · squinting · squinted

1. intransitive To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression. The children squinted to frighten each other.
2. intransitive To look or glance sideways.

   Similar: skew

3. intransitive To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
4. figuratively, intransitive To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something. Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
5. Scotland, intransitive To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
6. transitive To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely. to squint an eye
7. Look askance. Congress clearly is squinting at the prospect of increased funding for the program.

Similar: skelly

noun squints

1. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
2. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus. He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
3. informal A quick or sideways glance; a short look; a peep. —And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint. —Give us a squint at her, says I.
4. A hagioscope.
5. The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
6. An opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church, providing an oblique view of the altar.

adjective

1. Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
2. Scotland askew, not level