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squint
noun
1 squint
Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes.
synonym: strabismus.
Roget 443:
dim sight,
dull sight half sight,
short sight,
near sight,
long sight,
double sight,
astigmatic sight,
failing sight;
dimsightedness
&c.;
purblindness,
lippitude†;
myopia,
presbyopia†;
confusion of vision;
astigmatism;
color blindness,
chromato pseudo blepsis†,
Daltonism;
nyctalopia†;
strabismus,
strabism†,
squint;
blearedness†,
day blindness,
hemeralopia†,
nystagmus;
xanthocyanopia†,
xanthopsia [Med.];
cast in the eye,
swivel eye,
goggle-eyes;
obliquity of vision.
winking
etc.
v.;
nictitation;
blinkard†,
albino.
dizziness,
swimming,
scotomy†;
cataract;
ophthalmia.
[Limitation of vision]
blinker;
screen
etc.
(hider)
530.
[Fallacies of vision]
deceptio visus [Lat.];
refraction,
distortion,
illusion,
false light,
anamorphosis†,
virtual image,
spectrum,
mirage,
looming,
phasma†;
phantasm,
phantasma†,
phantom;
vision;
specter,
apparition,
ghost;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
(luminary)
423;
specter of the Brocken;
magic mirror;
magic lantern
etc.
(show)
448;
mirror lens
etc.
(instrument)
445.
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Dutch: scheelzien, scheelheid, strabisme
Polish: zez, zezowatość
2 squint
The act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed.
verb
1 squint
Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus:
— The children squinted so as to scare each other.
synonym: squinch.
Roget 441:
see,
behold,
discern,
perceive,
have in sight,
descry,
sight,
make out,
discover,
distinguish,
recognize,
spy,
espy,
ken [Scot.];
get a sight of,
have a sight of,
catch a sight of,
get a glimpse of,
have a glimpse of,
catch a glimpse of;
command a view of;
witness,
contemplate,
speculate;
cast the eyes on,
set the eyes on;
be a spectator of
etc.
444;
look on
etc.
(be present)
186;
see sights
etc.
(curiosity)
455;
see at a glance
etc.
(intelligence)
498.
look,
view,
eye;
lift up the eyes,
open one's eye;
look at,
look on,
look upon,
look over,
look about one,
look round;
survey,
scan,
inspect;
run the eye over,
run the eye through;
reconnoiter,
glance round,
glance on,
glance over turn one's looks upon,
bend one's looks upon;
direct the eyes to,
turn the eyes on,
cast a glance.
observe
etc.
(attend to)
457;
watch
etc.
(care)
459;
see with one's own eyes;
watch for
etc.
(expect)
507;
peep,
peer,
pry,
take a peep;
play at bopeep†.
look full in the face,
look hard at,
look intently;
strain one's eyes;
fix the eyes upon,
rivet the eyes upon;
stare,
gaze;
pore over,
gloat on;
leer,
ogle,
glare;
goggle;
cock the eye,
squint,
gloat,
look askance.
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Roget 443:
be dimsighted
etc.
n.;
see double;
have a mote in the eye,
have a mist before the eyes,
have a film over the eyes;
see through a prism,
see through a glass darkly;
wink,
blink,
nictitate;
squint;
look askant†,
askant askance†;
screw up the eyes,
glare,
glower;
nictate†.
dazzle,
loom.
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2 squint
Be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus.
Dutch: loensen
3 squint
Partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light.
Dutch: scheelkijken, loensen
adjective
1 squint
Moby thesaurus: aberration, cast, circuitousness, cock the eye, convergent strabismus, cross-eye, cross-eyedness, crosswiseness, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence, esotropia, excursion, exotropia, goggle, heterotropia, indirection, indirectness, look askance, look asquint, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, skew, skewness, squinch, squint the eye, strabismus, transverseness, upward strabismus, vagary, walleye ... show more.
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