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单词 squinting
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squintingn.

Etymology: < squint v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsquinting.
1.
a. The action of looking with a squint or side-glance. Also figurative.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.

Etymology: < squint v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsquinting.
1.
a. Of persons, the eyes, etc.: Looking obliquely or with a squint; affected with strabismus.
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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
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.
b. Looking opposite ways. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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