a. [f. SQUINT adv.]

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  1.  Of persons: Having squint eyes; affected with squint or strabismus.

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1589.  Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, I. xiv. (Arb.), 48. He was squint eyed and had a very vnpleasant countenance.

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1602.  Breton, Wonders Worth Hearing, Wks. (Grosart), II. 8/1. Though she were squinte eyed,… wry bodyed, and splay footed.

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1656.  Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., II. viii. (1674), 147. Those glass-eyes which squint ey’d people wore.

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1726.  Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 6/2. People humpback’d, squint-eyed, crooked and lame.

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1753.  Torriano, Gangr. Sore Throat, 37. I have since learned, that this Patient … became squint-ey’d and deformed.

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1848.  Buckley, Iliad, 165. Daughters, halt, and wrinkled, and squint-eyed.

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1872.  Black, Adv. Phaeton, xix. 261. That squint-eyed publican who thrashes his wife.

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  b.  In allusive or fig. use.

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1563.  A. Nevill, in Googe, Eglogs (Arb.), 23.

        Defye them all. μισἄνθρωποι
  and squynteyd Monsters ryght
They are.

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1591.  Harington, Orl. Fur., Pref. Euerie blind corner hath a squint eyed Zoilus, that can looke a right vpon no mans doings.

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1620–6.  Quarles, Feast for Worms, 855, Wks. (Grosart), II. 17. Others, whom the squint-ey’d world counts holy. Ibid., 1482 (p. 22). Heart-gnawing Hatred, and Squint-ey’d Suspition.

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1647.  N. Ward, Simple Cobler, 21. All the squint-ey’d, wry-neck’d, and brazen-faced Errors that are … of that litter.

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1712.  Parnell, Spect., No. 460, ¶ 3. Upon the broad Top of it resided squint-eyed Errour, and Popular Opinion with many Heads.

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1755.  J. Brown, Barbarossa, I. i. For in these walks … wakeful suspicion dwells, And squint-ey’d jealousy.

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  2.  Characterized by squint or oblique vision. Also fig.

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1598.  Marston, Pygmal., Sat., ii. Who would imagine that such squint-ey’d sight Could strike the worlds deformities so right.

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1616.  R. Carpenter, Larum Love, 49. That squint-ey’d partialitie, so much condemned by the Apostle.

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1656.  Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Pol. Touchstone, 401. A squint-ey’d look, wherewith while she seem to look fixedly upon one, she is very intent on observing another.

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1661.  Hickeringill, Jamaica, 71. To which squint-ey’d Mode in war Scanderbeg stands endebted for most of his Victories against the Ottomanes.

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  Hence Squint-eyedness.

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1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Entortadura,… squinteidnes, crookedness.

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