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Look up: Squint

  1. Squint
    Observation hole in wall or room.
    Found on http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.

  2. squint
    [v] - be cross-eyed 2. [v] - partly close one`s eyes
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Squint
    observation hole in wall or room
    Found on http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/glossary.

  4. Squint
    A hole cut in a wall or pier to allow the main altar to be viewed from where it otherwise could not be seen.
    Found on http://www.digital-documents.co.uk/archi

  5. Squint
    A hole through a pier or wall so that the high altar could be seen from a place where otherwise the view would be blocked.
    Found on http://www.digital-documents.co.uk/archi

  6. squint
    a hole cut through stonework to allow a view of the high altar from a location that could otherwise not see it: also called a hagioscope
    Found on http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/glos

  7. squint
    In architecture, a slanting aperture cut through the walls of the chancel in certain medieval churches, so as to make the elevation of the Host visible from a side chapel. It is...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  8. squint
    a condition in which one eye deviates from the point of fixation Category: Medicine • a small angle which may exist between the normal to the plane of a broadside array,or between the axis of an end-fire array,and the direction of maximum radiation Category: News-systems and communications • The small angle which may exist between the normal to the plane of a broadside arra...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  9. Squint
    A hole in a wall usually to allow sight of the altar. Also called Hagioscope
    Found on http://www.norwichchurches.co.uk/Glossar

  10. Squint
    Squint adjective [ Confer Dutch schuinte a slope, schuin , schuinisch , sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Confer Askant , Askance , Asquint .] 1. Looking obliquely. Specifically (Medicine) , not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint , noun , 2. 2. Fig.: Looking ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/179

  11. Squint
    Squint intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Squinted ; present participle & verbal noun Squinting .] 1. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. « Some can squint when they will.» Bacon. 2. (Medicine) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/179

  12. Squint
    Squint transitive verb 1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye. 2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. « He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.» Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/179

  13. Squint
    Squint noun 1. The act or habit of squinting. 2. (Medicine) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. 3. (Architecture) Same as Hagioscope .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/179

  14. Squint
    Squint intransitive verb 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/179

  15. squint
    1. <ophthalmology> To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. Specifically, not having the optic axes coincident; said of the eyes. To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed. ... 2. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. ... Synonym: strabismus. ... Origin: Cf. D. Schuinte a slope, schuin, s ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  16. squint
    noun the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  17. Squint
    `Squint` may be: * To squint, i.e. look with the eyes partly closed * Squint (band) * Squint Entertainment record label * Squint (antenna) * An alternative name for the medical condition strabismus * An alternative name for a hagioscope
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squint

  18. squint
    (skwint) strabismus.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  19. Squint
    • (v. i.) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something. • (v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. • (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. • (v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed. • (n.) Th...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  20. squint
    a property of an antenna such that the beam axis or the directional null departs slightly from a specified axis such as the direction perpendicular to the aperture or the intended direction of the beam axis or directional null of the antenna NOTE - Squint is often the undesired result of a defect in an antenna; in certain cases however it is design...
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

  21. squint
    squint: see strabismus.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09190


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