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squint-eyed, a.|ˈskwɪntaɪd|
[f. squint adv.]
1. Of persons: Having squint eyes; affected with squint or strabismus.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xiv. (Arb.) 48 He was squint eyed and had a very vnpleasant countenance. 1602Breton Wonders Worth Hearing Wks. (Grosart) II. 8/1 Though she were squinte eyed,..wry bodyed, and splay footed. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. viii. (1674) 147 Those glass-eyes which squint ey'd-people wore. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 6/2 People hump-back'd, squint-eyed, crooked and lame. 1753Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 37, I have since learned, that this Patient..became squint-ey'd and deformed. 1848Buckley Iliad 165 Daughters, halt, and wrinkled, and squint-eyed. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xix. 261 That squint-eyed publican who thrashes his wife.
b. In allusive or fig. use.
1563A. Nevill in Googe Eglogs (Arb.) 23 Defye them all. µισάνθρωποι and squynteyd Monsters ryght They are. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. Pref., Euerie blind corner hath a squint eyed Zoilus, that can looke a right vpon no mans doings. 1620–6Quarles Feast for Worms 855 Wks. (Grosart) II. 17 Others, whom the squint-ey'd world counts holy. Ibid. 1482 (p. 22), Heart-gnawing Hatred, and Squint-ey'd Suspition. 1647N. Ward Simple Cobler 21 All the squint-ey'd, wry-neck'd, and brazen-faced Errors that are..of that litter. 1712Parnell Spect. No. 460 ⁋3 Upon the broad Top of it resided squint-eyed Errour, and Popular Opinion with many Heads. 1755Brown Barbarossa i. i, In these walks..wakeful suspicion dwells, And squint-eyed jealousy.
2. Characterized by squint or oblique vision. Also fig.
1598Marston Pygmal., Sat. ii, Who would imagine that such squint-ey'd sight Could strike the worlds deformities so right. 1616R. Carpenter Larum Love 49 That squint-ey'd partialitie, so much condemned by the Apostle. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Pol. Touchstone 401 A squint-ey'd look, wherewith while she seem to look fixedly upon one, she is very intent on observing another. 1661Hickeringill Jamaica 71 To which squint-ey'd Mode in war Scanderbeg stands endebted for most of his Victories against the Ottomanes.
Hence squint-eyedness.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Entortadura,..squinteidnes, crookedness. |