intransitive verb

1. to look or peer with the eyes partly closed, as when the light is too strong
2. to look with the eyes turned to the side; look obliquely or askance
3. to be cross-eyed
4. to incline or have a tendency (toward a given direction, belief, etc.)
5. to deviate from a given line, tendency, etc.

Etymology: aphetic for asquint

transitive verb

1. to cause to squint
2. to keep (the eyes) partly closed in peering at something

noun

1. the act of squinting
2. an inclination or tendency
3. an oblique or perverse tendency or bent
4. the condition of being cross-eyed; strabismus
5. Informal a look or glance, often sidelong or casual

adjective

1. squinting; looking askance or sidelong
2. characterized by strabismus squint eyes