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Some can squint when they will.

Bacon.

2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.

3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

Squint, v. t. 1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.

2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.

He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.

Shak.

Squint, n. 1. The act or habit of squinting.

2. (Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

3. (Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.

Squint"er (?), n. One who squints.

Squint"-eye` (?), n. An eye that squints. Spenser.

Squint"-eyed` (?), a. 1. Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.

2. Looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant; as, squint-eyed praise; squint-eyed jealousy.

Squint`i*fe"go (?), a. Squinting. [Obs. & R.]

Squint"ing (?), a. & n. from Squint, v. -- Squint"ing*ly, adv.

Squin"y (?), v. i. To squint. [Obs.] Shak.

Squin"zey (?), n. (Med.) See Quinsy. [Obs.]

Squir (skwr), v. t. To throw with a jerk; to throw edge foremost. [Obs.] [Written also squirr.] Addison.

Squir"al*ty (?), n. Same as Squirarchy.

That such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom.

Sterne.

Squir"arch (?), n. [Squire + - arch.] One who belongs to the squirarchy. -- Squir"arch*al (#), a.

Squir"arch*y (?), n. [Squire + -archy.] The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively. [Written also squirearchy.]

Squire (?), n. [OF. esquierre, F. équerre. See Square, n.] A square; a measure; a rule. [Obs.] "With golden squire." Spenser.

Squire, n. [Aphetic form of esquire.] 1. A shield-bearer or armor- bearer who attended a knight.

2. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire. [Eng.] "His privy knights and squires." Chaucer.