cross-eyen.
a. plural. Squinting eyes.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > squinting or cross-eyes
cast1505
squint-eyedness1591
squinting1626
squinta1652
squintness1656
strabism1656
strabismus1684
cockeye1738
goggle-eye1822
nystagmus1822
cross-eyes1826
cross-eyedness1846
anorthopia1849
heterophthalmy1854
hyperphoria1881
heterophoria1886
hypertropia1897
intorsion1899
hypophoria1932
prairie squint1937
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) II. 302 I cannot abide these ‘cross-eyes’, as the country people call them; though I have heard of ladies who..admired those of Mr. Wilkes.
b. That sort of squint in which the eyes are turned inwards so that the axes of vision cross each other; internal strabismus.
Derivatives
ˈcross-eyed adj. squinting.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > squinting or cross-eyed
wall-eyeda1400
thwartingc1430
gleed1482
pink-eyed1519
goggle1540
squint1579
squint-eyed1589
squinted1591
squinting1611
moon-eyed1623
squink-eyed1632
asquint1643
skew-eyed1658
cockeyed1751
yaw-sighted1751
swivel-eyed1758
cross-eyed1791
slew-eyed1807
skellied1821
squinny-eyeda1825
strabismic1855
boss-eyed1860
strabismical1866
hyperphoric1887
strabismal1891
heterophoric1894
squinty1922
squinty1925
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 260 Cross-eyed he was.
1816 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 42 139 A cross-eyed effort, which criticism should blush to admire.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 48 When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch, Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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