[f. SQUINT v.]

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  1.  One who squints. Also fig.

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1738.  Corr. betw. C’tess Hartford & C’tess Pomfret (1805), I. 32. He bestows them on such a squinter as thou, and on such a halting cripple as myself.

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1771.  Warton, Oxford Newsman, Poet. Wks. 1802, II. 217. Nor more … The triumphs of the patriot Squinter … Shall croud each column of our Journal.

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1827.  Blackw. Mag., XXI. 662. I was now a squinter…. I squinted like an owl.

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1861.  J. G. Sheppard, Fall Rome, vi. 280. The son of Triar, or the ‘Squinter,’ as he was sometimes called, one of the best captains of the age.

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  2.  A squint eye.

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1873.  Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, xliii. (1883), 284. The cunning gleam from the black deep ambushed squinters.

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