单词 | squinting |
释义 | squintingn. 1. a. The action of looking with a squint or side-glance. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > looking sideways by glancing1598 squinting1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Louschement, a squinting, or looking askew. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 181 The Physitian halfe a Fee; the Mountebanke more than hee asketh, &c. with such like squintings on Desert. a1721 M. Prior Ess. & Dialogues of Dead: Lock & Montaigne in Dialogues of Dead & Other Wks. (1907) 233 If again your Eyes were continually endeavoring [to] look one upon an other, you would only get a habit of Squinting. 1887 Sc. Leader 22 Nov. 6/1 A little political squinting might be allowable. b. figurative. A sidelong ‘glance’ or reference. U.S. ΚΠ 1855 P. T. Barnum Life 382 The attack had a squinting towards ‘black mail’. 1860 Life & Corr. Quitman 261 The following bulletin soon after appeared. It had an awful squinting at Taylor and Gaines. 2. spec. The eye-disease strabismus; = squint n. 1. 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 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §867 Both Eyes will moue Outwards; As affecting to see the Light, and so induce Squinting. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 6 She has been cured of..squinting, by the Chevalier Taylor. 1784 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children 208 Another, and a very common blemish, is that called squinting. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 237 It is obvious, therefore, that strabismus may have three varieties..Habitual squinting... Atonic squinting... Organic squinting. 1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. 595 If..the conformity of the two eyes be restored (as by the operation for the cure of squinting). 1883 J. Millington Are we to read Backwards? 23 Squinting..is usually produced by an abnormally flattened shape of the eyeball. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021). squintingadj. 1. a. Of persons, the eyes, etc.: Looking obliquely or with a squint; affected with 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 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Biglesse, a squinting wench. 1647 J. Hall Poems i. 11 What rocks of Diamonds presently arise In the soft Quagmires of two squinting eyes? 1688 London Gaz. No. 2371/4 Sam Cowling.., a squat bow-legged squinting Fellow. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vii. 199 She was a little squinting beauty, very well painted. 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 525 The focal points of direct vision do not ever correspond anatomically in squinting persons. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xii. 118 He..saw..squinting faces leering in the squares and diamonds of the floorcloth. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 160/1 The patient again suppresses the image of the squinting eye. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [adjective] > sideways > opposite ways squinting1598 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. i. sig. B6v Mylo doth hate Murder, Clodius coockolds, Marius the gate Of squinting Ianus shuts. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 37 As in a picture, where the squinting paint Shewes Fiend on this side, and on that side Saint. 2. Of looks, etc.: Characterized or accompanied by a squint or squints; oblique. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [adjective] > sideways askanted1576 squintinga1593 askance1593 squint1611 leer1631 skaunt1791 squinnya1825 sideways-looking1832 cockeyed1852 skance1866 squinnying1973 a1593 C. Marlowe tr. Lucan First Bk. (1600) i. 55 Whence thou shouldst view thy Roome with squinting beams. 1713 Berkeley Ess. in Guardian No. 4 They all agreed in a squinting look, or cast of their eyes towards a certain person in a mask. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 332 The eye has a look peculiarly oblique or squinting. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 3 A man with a squinting leer. 3. That squints, in figurative senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adjective] > oblique squinting1648 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [adjective] collateralc1374 ambagious?1532 indirect1584 circular1617 squint1619 squinting1648 sidelong1654 circumferentiala1661 circuitous1664 side wind1672 side-winded1696 roundabout1701 side-handed1828 1648 R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido (1676) 158 With a strait look, a squinting heart; and least Fidelity where greatest was profest. 1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 136 Those dark and squinting oracles, that came..from the Prince of darkness and father of lies. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 74 You are lash'd in a Preface with a squinting Reflection that looks a hundred ways at once. 1828 C. Lamb Confessions of Drunkard (rev. ed.) in Elia 2nd Ser. 201 To give pleasure, and be paid with squinting malice. Derivatives ˈsquintingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adverb] > squinting asquinta1398 squint1398 agoggle1510 nine ways (at once)1542 awkward?1589 squintingly1593 strabismally1893 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 61v O why should I but squintingly glance at these matters, when they are so admirably expatiated by auncient Writers? 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Biglement, squintingly, skenningly, askew. 1708 W. Sewel Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch ii Loens, asquint, squintingly. 1820 J. Hogg Basil Lee Tales (1866) 264 Her gray eyes softly and squintingly turned on me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1611adj.a1593 |
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