Squint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting.]
  1. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
     Some can squint when they will.   --Bacon.
  2. Med. To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed.
  3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
  4. To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
     Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.    --The Forum.
  Squint·ing a. & n. from Squint, v. -- Squint*ing*ly, adv.
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  squinting
       adj : having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched
             eyes" [syn: squinched]