subs. phr. (old).—A squinting man or woman: also SQUIN-EYES, SQUINT-A-PIPES, and SQUINT-A-FUEGO. As adj. = squinting; TO SQUINNY (or SQUIN) = to squint; and (American) to laugh, wink, or smile.

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  1602.  J. COOKE, How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, ii. 3.

        Gold can make limping Vulcan walke upright,
Make SQUINT EIES looke straight, a crabbed face look smooth.

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  1605.  SHAKESPEARE, King Lear, iv. 6. Lear. I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou SQUINY at me?

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  1609.  ARMIN, The Italian Taylor and his Boy.

        As doctors in their deepest doubts,
Stroke up their foreheads hie;
Or wen amazde, their sorrow flouts,
By SQUEAMING with the eye.

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  1692.  DRYDEN, Persius, v. 271.

        The timbrel, and the SQUINTIFEGO maid
Of Isis, awe thee.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. SQUINT-A-PIPES … said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunday; or born in a hackney coach, and looking out of both windows; fit for a cook, one eye in the pot, and the other up the chimney; looking nine ways at once.

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