Definition of: squint

(skwint) v.i.
1. To look with half-closed eyes, as into bright light.
2. To look with a side glance; look askance.
3. To be cross-eyed.
4. To incline or tend: with toward, etc.
—v.t.
5. To hold (the eyes) half shut, as in glaring light.
6. To cause to squint.
—adjective
1. Having the optic axes not coincident; affected with strabismus: said of the eyes.
2. Looking obliquely or askance; indirect.
—noun
1. Pathol. An affection of the eyes in which their axes are differently directed; strabismus.
2. The act or habit of squinting.
3. Hence, an indirect leaning, tendency, or drift.
4. A hagioscope. [Origin uncertain]
—squint′er noun