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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.