asquintadv.adj.

Brit.

/əˈskwɪnt/, U.S.

/ˈæskwɪnt/

Forms: Middle English– asquint, Middle English a squynte, Middle English asquynt, 1600s a squint.

Etymology: Of uncertain origin; apparently < a prep.¹ and a word corresponding to Dutch schuinte ‘slope, slant,’ of the independent use of which no instances survive; the later squint adverb and adjective being an aphetic form of asquint, and squint verb and noun still later derivatives of this. Evidence is wanting to determine whether the original word was actually adopted < Dutch, or was a cognate word, unrecorded in Old English; the total absence of any related words in Old English (or Old Norse) makes the latter improbable.

A. adv.

I. With look or a synonymous verb.

* Of voluntary turning of the eyes.

a. (To look) to one side instead of straight forward; obliquely, out at the corners of the eyes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > looking sideways

asquinta1250

sidelings?a1400

bagginglyc1400

askoyc1425

askilec1450

to look sideways1652

squintly1655

skew-eyed1658

with eye askant1753

skaunt1791

out of, with the tail of the eye1805

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 94 Auh winckeð oþere half. & biholdeð oluft & asquint.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. f. 263^v Looking somewhat a squint.

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. H4^v Didst neuer see an archer..looke a squint when he drew his bow?

1679 E. Everard Depositions Popish Plot 11 Who looking on me a~squint, went down the Privy Stairs.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. x. 217 He does not survey the objects of nature as they are in themselves, but lookes asquint at them.

b. transferred of things.

ΚΠ

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. vii. 168 Let not the Front look asquint on a stranger, but accost him right at his entrance.

1657 I. B. Heroick Educ. App. iv. sig. I7^v Sweden is a country on which the Sun does look asquint.

c. figurative of mental vision.

ΚΠ

1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxviii. sig. P6 To looke a squint, our hand looking one way and our hart another.

1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 81 Be not too fixt nor intent upon what is before you..but looke asquint into your considerations and about you.

2. With reference to various mental attitudes, of which averted, oblique, sidelong, or furtive glances are the outward expression: archaic. (To look)

a. with distrust, suspicion; jealously, askance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [adverb] > jealously

asquint1413

jealously1718

1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle ii. xiv. 51 Thou somtyme ar this mettist with enuye, that loked asquynt.

1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vi. 252 The envy of many of the greatest men..who had long look'd a squint upon the Duke's Prosperity.

1729 R. Savage Wanderer iii. 229 Envy asquint the future wonder eyes.

b. with unfairness, with prejudice or partiality.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [adverb]

sinistrously1562

prejudicately1588

prejudicially1589

asquint1607

prejudicedly1812

1607 B. Jonson Volpone Ep. Ded. sig. ¶1^v Men will impartially, and not à-squint, looke toward the offices, and function of a Poët.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 384 O Sirs, do we think that Christs love looks a squint? doth he pray for one childe more than another?

c. with an eye drawn aside by interest.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > [adverb] > with eyes asquint

asquint1632

1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 526 It was..no better, (for his heart even then hankered after the wages of unrighteousnesse,) when hee looked a squint vpon Balaks liberall offer.

1678 Tryal E. Coleman 13 He had a little too much Eye to the Reward; he looked too much asquint upon the matter of Money.

d. with furtive or stolen glances.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > furtively

asquint1726

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adverb] > with furtive glances

asquint1726

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 82 In ambush here to lurk by night, Into the woman-state asquint to pry.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 215 Peering asquint into the Holy of Holies.

†3.

a. To cast a passing glance; figurative to make incidental reference. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1638 J. Mede Apostasy Latter Times (1641) 33 [Nothing] may so much as look asquint upon any other object, or behold any other face but the face of God alone.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xxii. 250 Others..have lookt asquint upon the Body of Woman.

†b. figurative. To glance unfavourably or adversely; to reflect unfavourably upon. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1673) 239 Uncharitable Censures..against any judgement looking a squint upon theirs.

** Of habitual obliquity of vision.

a. esp. (To look) obliquely through defect in the eyes, to have the axes of the eyes not coincident, so that they look in different directions; to squint.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adverb] > squinting

asquinta1398

squint1398

agoggle1510

nine ways (at once)1542

awkward?1589

squintingly1593

strabismally1893

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. iv. 299 A place þat is to briȝt..ofte makeþ children loke asquynt.

1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. f. lxxviii^v Of google eyes, or lokynge a squynt.

1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads ii. 21 Lame of one leg he was; and lookt asquint.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 9 His other eye look'd so a-squint, That it was hard to ward his dint.

1763 C. Churchill Rosciad (new ed.) 9 Doth a man stutter, look a-squint, or halt..?

1835 E. A. Poe Loss of Breath in Wks. (1864) IV. 305 The looking asquint—the showing my teeth.

b. figurative and transferred of things.

ΚΠ

1720 Right of Precedence between Phisicians & Civilians 11 Rather than suffer his Learning to look a-squint as it does, and make so frightful a Figure from the Press.

1881 J. S. Blackie Lay Serm. i. 31 The beer-toper..finding the moon looking somewhat asquint, the houses all nodding.

c. figurative of mental vision: (To look) awry, so as to miss seeing or see distortedly.

ΚΠ

1616 W. Forde Serm. 35 If old, wee looke a squint, and see not death before our eyes.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 7 Those vulgar heads that look asquint on the face of Truth.

II. With other verbs. rare.

5. Off to one side; obliquely. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > [adverb] > off the direct line > obliquely

asidec1369

aslanta1400

slant1495

obliquely1503

asklenta1540

askew1565

slantingly1570

slantwise1573

wry1575

bias?1578

askance1590

askant1602

slantinga1625

asquint1645

across1700

slantly1719

akimboc1796

slantways1828

aslantwise1852

slantingways1899

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] > obliquely

aslanta1400

sideslepes?a1400

embelifc1400

slant1495

obliquely1503

slantling?1521

askance1530

asklenta1540

biaswise1545

askew1565

wry1575

bias?1578

slentwise1579

overthwartly1591

asquint1645

transversally1648

aslope1667

slantways1828

skeow-ways1869

slantingways1899

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 40* Whether is common sense flown asquint.

1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 40 Could I but write a-squint; then (Sir) long since You had been sung, A Great and Glorious Prince.

B. adj.

(Only in pred. or after the noun eye.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > squinting or cross-eyed

wall-eyeda1400

thwartingc1430

gleed1482

pink-eyed1519

goggle1540

squint1579

squint-eyed1589

squinted1591

squinting1611

moon-eyed1623

squink-eyed1632

asquint1643

skew-eyed1658

cockeyed1751

yaw-sighted1751

swivel-eyed1758

cross-eyed1791

slew-eyed1807

skellied1821

squinny-eyeda1825

strabismic1855

boss-eyed1860

strabismical1866

hyperphoric1887

strabismal1891

heterophoric1894

squinty1922

squinty1925

1643 T. Warmstry Answer Observ. W. Bridges conc. Present Warre 1 As if every eye were asquint.

c1661 Argyle's Last Will in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 29/1 His Eyes very much a-squint, so that he was nicknamed, in Scotland, Gleed Argyle.

a1764 R. Lloyd Progr. Envy in Wks. (1774) I. 139 A ghastly grin and eyes asquint.

1876 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. iv. 126 The eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	asquint
释义	asquintadv.adj. Brit. /əˈskwɪnt/, U.S. /ˈæskwɪnt/ Forms: Middle English– asquint, Middle English a squynte, Middle English asquynt, 1600s a squint. Etymology: Of uncertain origin; apparently < a prep.¹ and a word corresponding to Dutch schuinte ‘slope, slant,’ of the independent use of which no instances survive; the later squint adverb and adjective being an aphetic form of asquint, and squint verb and noun still later derivatives of this. Evidence is wanting to determine whether the original word was actually adopted < Dutch, or was a cognate word, unrecorded in Old English; the total absence of any related words in Old English (or Old Norse) makes the latter improbable. A. adv. I. With look or a synonymous verb. * Of voluntary turning of the eyes. 1. a. (To look) to one side instead of straight forward; obliquely, out at the corners of the eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > looking sideways asquinta1250 sidelings?a1400 bagginglyc1400 askoyc1425 askilec1450 to look sideways1652 squintly1655 skew-eyed1658 with eye askant1753 skaunt1791 out of, with the tail of the eye1805 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 94 Auh winckeð oþere half. & biholdeð oluft & asquint. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. f. 263^v Looking somewhat a squint. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. H4^v Didst neuer see an archer..looke a squint when he drew his bow? 1679 E. Everard Depositions Popish Plot 11 Who looking on me a~squint, went down the Privy Stairs. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. x. 217 He does not survey the objects of nature as they are in themselves, but lookes asquint at them. b. transferred of things. ΚΠ 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. vii. 168 Let not the Front look asquint on a stranger, but accost him right at his entrance. 1657 I. B. Heroick Educ. App. iv. sig. I7^v Sweden is a country on which the Sun does look asquint. c. figurative of mental vision. ΚΠ 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxviii. sig. P6 To looke a squint, our hand looking one way and our hart another. 1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 81 Be not too fixt nor intent upon what is before you..but looke asquint into your considerations and about you. 2. With reference to various mental attitudes, of which averted, oblique, sidelong, or furtive glances are the outward expression: archaic. (To look) a. with distrust, suspicion; jealously, askance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [adverb] > jealously asquint1413 jealously1718 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle ii. xiv. 51 Thou somtyme ar this mettist with enuye, that loked asquynt. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vi. 252 The envy of many of the greatest men..who had long look'd a squint upon the Duke's Prosperity. 1729 R. Savage Wanderer iii. 229 Envy asquint the future wonder eyes. b. with unfairness, with prejudice or partiality. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [adverb] sinistrously1562 prejudicately1588 prejudicially1589 asquint1607 prejudicedly1812 1607 B. Jonson Volpone Ep. Ded. sig. ¶1^v Men will impartially, and not à-squint, looke toward the offices, and function of a Poët. View more context for this quotation 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 384 O Sirs, do we think that Christs love looks a squint? doth he pray for one childe more than another? c. with an eye drawn aside by interest. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [adverb] > with eyes asquint asquint1632 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 526 It was..no better, (for his heart even then hankered after the wages of unrighteousnesse,) when hee looked a squint vpon Balaks liberall offer. 1678 Tryal E. Coleman 13 He had a little too much Eye to the Reward; he looked too much asquint upon the matter of Money. d. with furtive or stolen glances. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > furtively asquint1726 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adverb] > with furtive glances asquint1726 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 82 In ambush here to lurk by night, Into the woman-state asquint to pry. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 215 Peering asquint into the Holy of Holies. †3. a. To cast a passing glance; figurative to make incidental reference. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1638 J. Mede Apostasy Latter Times (1641) 33 [Nothing] may so much as look asquint upon any other object, or behold any other face but the face of God alone. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xxii. 250 Others..have lookt asquint upon the Body of Woman. †b. figurative. To glance unfavourably or adversely; to reflect unfavourably upon. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1673) 239 Uncharitable Censures..against any judgement looking a squint upon theirs. ** Of habitual obliquity of vision. 4. a. esp. (To look) obliquely through defect in the eyes, to have the axes of the eyes not coincident, so that they look in different directions; to squint. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adverb] > squinting asquinta1398 squint1398 agoggle1510 nine ways (at once)1542 awkward?1589 squintingly1593 strabismally1893 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. iv. 299 A place þat is to briȝt..ofte makeþ children loke asquynt. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. f. lxxviii^v Of google eyes, or lokynge a squynt. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads ii. 21 Lame of one leg he was; and lookt asquint. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 9 His other eye look'd so a-squint, That it was hard to ward his dint. 1763 C. Churchill Rosciad (new ed.) 9 Doth a man stutter, look a-squint, or halt..? 1835 E. A. Poe Loss of Breath in Wks. (1864) IV. 305 The looking asquint—the showing my teeth. b. figurative and transferred of things. ΚΠ 1720 Right of Precedence between Phisicians & Civilians 11 Rather than suffer his Learning to look a-squint as it does, and make so frightful a Figure from the Press. 1881 J. S. Blackie Lay Serm. i. 31 The beer-toper..finding the moon looking somewhat asquint, the houses all nodding. c. figurative of mental vision: (To look) awry, so as to miss seeing or see distortedly. ΚΠ 1616 W. Forde Serm. 35 If old, wee looke a squint, and see not death before our eyes. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 7 Those vulgar heads that look asquint on the face of Truth. View more context for this quotation II. With other verbs. rare. 5. Off to one side; obliquely. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adverb] > off the direct line > obliquely asidec1369 aslanta1400 slant1495 obliquely1503 asklenta1540 askew1565 slantingly1570 slantwise1573 wry1575 bias?1578 askance1590 askant1602 slantinga1625 asquint1645 across1700 slantly1719 akimboc1796 slantways1828 aslantwise1852 slantingways1899 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] > obliquely aslanta1400 sideslepes?a1400 embelifc1400 slant1495 obliquely1503 slantling?1521 askance1530 asklenta1540 biaswise1545 askew1565 wry1575 bias?1578 slentwise1579 overthwartly1591 asquint1645 transversally1648 aslope1667 slantways1828 skeow-ways1869 slantingways1899 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 40* Whether is common sense flown asquint. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 40 Could I but write a-squint; then (Sir) long since You had been sung, A Great and Glorious Prince. B. adj. (Only in pred. or after the noun eye.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > squinting or cross-eyed wall-eyeda1400 thwartingc1430 gleed1482 pink-eyed1519 goggle1540 squint1579 squint-eyed1589 squinted1591 squinting1611 moon-eyed1623 squink-eyed1632 asquint1643 skew-eyed1658 cockeyed1751 yaw-sighted1751 swivel-eyed1758 cross-eyed1791 slew-eyed1807 skellied1821 squinny-eyeda1825 strabismic1855 boss-eyed1860 strabismical1866 hyperphoric1887 strabismal1891 heterophoric1894 squinty1922 squinty1925 1643 T. Warmstry Answer Observ. W. Bridges conc. Present Warre 1 As if every eye were asquint. c1661 Argyle's Last Will in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 29/1 His Eyes very much a-squint, so that he was nicknamed, in Scotland, Gleed Argyle. a1764 R. Lloyd Progr. Envy in Wks. (1774) I. 139 A ghastly grin and eyes asquint. 1876 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. iv. 126 The eye is muddy and sometimes asquint. 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