单词 | asquint |
释义 | asquint (once / 179081 pages) adj WORD FAMILY asquint USAGE EXAMPLESI marked the row of weather-beaten faces pillowed on the gun-stocks with eyes asquint to sight the pieces. Lynde, Francis, The Master of Appleby—A Novel Tale...(2010) But the Muses and the Graces are his hard mistresses; though he daily invocate them, though he sacrifice hecatombs, they still look asquint. Various, Character Writings of the 17th Cent...(2010) He,' indicating the sun, 'can only get at me asquint by that time, and I'm a match for him with my blue umbrella. Yonge, Charlotte Mary, The Pillars of the House, V1(2010) adj (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy Syn askance, askant, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty indirect not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination |
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