单词 | squint-eyed |
释义 | squint-eyedadj. 1. a. Of persons: Having squint eyes; affected with squint or strabismus. ΘΚΠ 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 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xiv. 26 He was squint eyed and had a very vnpleasant countenance. 1602 N. Breton Wonders worth Hearing in Wks. (1879) II. 8/1 Though she were squinte eyed,..wry bodyed, and splay footed. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. viii. 147 Those glass-eyes which squint ey'd-people wore. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 6/2 People hump-back'd, squint-eyed, crooked and lame. 1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 37 I have since learned, that this Patient..became squint-ey'd and deformed. 1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 165 Daughters, halt, and wrinkled, and squint-eyed. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xix. 261 That squint-eyed publican who thrashes his wife. b. In allusive or figurative use. ΚΠ 1563 A. Neville in B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. A.iiiv Defye them all. μισάνθρωποι and squynteyd Monsters ryght They are. 1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶ijv Euerie blind corner hath a squint eyed Zoilus, that can looke a right vpon no mans doings. 1620–6 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes 855 in Wks. (1880) II. 17 Others, whom the squint-ey'd world counts holy. 1620–6 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes 1482 in Wks. (1880) II. 22 Heart-gnawing Hatred, and Squint-ey'd Suspition. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 20 All the squint-ey'd, wry-neck'd, and brasen-faced Errors that are..of that litter. 1712 T. Parnell in Spectator No. 460. ⁋3 Upon the broad Top of it resided squint-eyed Errour, and Popular Opinion with many Heads. 1755 J. Brown Barbarossa i. 12 In these Walks..wakeful Suspicion dwells, And squint-ey'd Jealousy. 2. Characterized by squint or oblique vision. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 40 Who would imagine that such squint-ey'd sight Could strike the worlds deformities so right. 1616 R. Carpenter Christs Larvmbell 49 in Pastoral Charge That squint-ey'd partialitie, so much condemned by the Apostle. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Polit. Touch-stone in tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 401 A squint-ey'd look, wherewith while she seem to look fixedly upon one, she is very intent on observing another. 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 71 To which squint-ey'd Mode in war Scanderbeg stands endebted for most of his Victories against the Ottomanes. Derivatives squint-eyedness n. ΘΚΠ 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 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Entortadura Squinteidnes, crookedness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1563 |
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