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▪ I. ˈsquinting, vbl. n.
[f. squint v.]
1. The action of looking with a squint or side-glance. Also fig.
1611Cotgr., Louschement, a squinting, or looking askew. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 181 The Physitian halfe a Fee; the Mountebanke more than hee asketh, &c. with such like squintings on Desert. a1721Prior Dial. Locke & Montaigne ⁋39 If again your Eyes were continually endeavoring [to] look one upon an other, you would only get a habit of Squinting. 1887Scottish Leader 22 Nov. 6/1 A little political squinting might be allowable.
2. spec. The eye-disease strabismus; = squint n. 1.
1626Bacon Sylva ⁋867 Both Eyes will moue Outwards; As affecting to see the Light, and so induce Squinting. 1763Foote Mayor of G. i. Wks. 1799 I. 163 She has been cured of..squinting, by the Chevalier Taylor. 1799Underwood Dis. Childhood (ed. 4) II. 248 Another, and a very common blemish is that called Squinting. 1822Good Study Med. III. 237 It is obvious, therefore, that strabismus may have three varieties:..Habitual squinting... Atonic squinting... Organic squinting. 1851Carpenter Man. Phys. 595 If..the conformity of the two eyes be restored (as by the operation for the cure of squinting). 1883Millington Are we to read backwards? 23 Squinting..is usually produced by an abnormally flattened shape of the eyeball.
▪ II. ˈsquinting, ppl. a.
[f. squint v.]
1. Of persons, the eyes, etc.: Looking obliquely or with a squint; affected with strabismus.
1611Cotgr., Biglesse, a squinting wench. 1646J. Hall Satire Poems (1906) 190 What rocks of diamonds presently arise In the soft quagmires of two squinting eyes. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2371/4 Sam Cowling.., a squat bow-legged squinting Fellow. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club) 201 She was a little squinting beauty, very well painted. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 525 The focal points of direct vision do not ever correspond anatomically in squinting persons. 1848Dickens Dombey xii, He..saw..squinting faces leering in the squares and diamonds of the floorcloth. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 160/1 The patient again suppresses the image of the squinting eye.
†b. Looking opposite ways. Obs. rare.
1598Marston Sco. Villanie i. i. 173 Mylo doth hate Murder, Clodius Cuckolds, Marius the gate Of squinting Ianus shuts. 1651Cleveland Poems 35 As in a picture, where the squinting paint Shews Fiend on this side, and on that side Saint.
2. Of looks, etc.: Characterized or accompanied by a squint or squints; oblique.
1600Marlowe tr. Lucan i. 55 Whence thou shouldst view thy Roome with squinting beams. 1713Berkeley Guardian No. 4, They all agreed in a squinting look, or cast of their eyes towards a certain person in a mask. 1822Good Study Med. II. 332 The eye has a look peculiarly oblique or squinting. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. i, A man with a squinting leer.
3. That squints, in fig. senses of the verb.
1648Fanshawe Il Pastor Fido (1676) 158 With a strait look, a squinting heart; and least Fidelity where greatest was profest. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 136 Those dark and squinting oracles, that came..from the Prince of darkness and father of lies. 1693Humours Town 74 You are lash'd in a Preface with a squinting Reflection that looks a hundred ways at once. 1826Lamb Conf. Drunkard in Elia (1869) 393 To give pleasure and be paid with squinting malice.
So ˈsquintingly adv.
1593Nashe Christ's Tears Wks. (Grosart) IV. 183 O why should I but squintingly glance at these matters, when they are so admirably expatiated by auncient Writers? 1611Cotgr., Biglement, squintingly, skenningly, askew. 1708Sewel ii, Loens, asquint, squintingly. 1820Hogg Adv. Basil Lee Tales (1866) 264 Her gray eyes softly and squintingly turned on me. |