\Squint\, v. i.
To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to
have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
      Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a
      squinting toward hypnotism.              --The Forum.

\Squint\, a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin,
schuinisch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf.
{Askant}, {Askance}, {Asquint}.]
1. Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the
   optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See {Squint},
   n., 2.
2. Fig.: Looking askance. ``Squint suspicion.'' --Milton.

\Squint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squinted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Squinting}.]
1. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a
   furtive glance.
         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}.