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Squint logo #10101) Askance 2) Askant 3) Asquint 4) Be cross-eyed 5) Fight the glare 6) Hard look 7) Have a squint or strabismus 8) Indirect 9) Look askance 10) Look into the sun 11) Look like Clint Eastwood 12) Look on the bright side 13) Look toward the sun 14) Look with half-shut eyes 15) Look without sunglasses
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Squint logo #10101) Askance 2) Askant 3) Asquint 4) Esotropia 5) Exotropia 6) Hypotropia 7) Peer 8) Sidelong 9) Squinty 10) Strabismus 11) Walleye
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Squint logo #22020an opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church providing an oblique view of the altar.
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Squint logo #21002• (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...
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Squint logo #22127Observation hole in wall or room.
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squint logo #21142a 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...
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Squint logo #20018Observation hole in wall or room.
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squint logo #20559a 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
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squint logo #20688In 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...
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Squint logo #20941A hole in a wall usually to allow sight of the altar. Also called Hagioscope
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squint logo #209731. <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...
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squint logo #21001(skwint) strabismus.
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Squint logo #22129observation hole in wall or room
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Squint logo #22200 A hole in a wall usually to allow sight of the altar. Also called Hagioscope
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Squint logo #20972Squint 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; -- ...
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Squint logo #20972Squint 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 wil...
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Squint logo #20972Squint 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 .
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Squint logo #20972Squint 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.
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squint logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: skwint Definitions: 1. To suffer from strabismus. Synonyms: strabismus
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Squint logo #21217In architecture a squint or hagioscope is an opening through the wall of a church in an oblique direction, for the purpose of enabling persons in the transepts or aisle to see the elevation of the Host at the high altar. The usual situation of these openings is on one or both sides of the chancel-arch, and there is frequently a projection, like a l...
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Squint logo #20402observation hole in wall or room
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Squint logo #20434A hole cut in a wall or pier to allow the main altar to be viewed from where it otherwise could not be seen.
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Squint logo #20434A hole through a pier or wall so that the high altar could be seen from a place where otherwise the view would be blocked.
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squint logo #20974 noun the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed
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squint logo #21221Common condition in which one eye deviates in any direction. A squint may be convergent (with the bad eye turned inwards), divergent (outwards), or, in rare cases, vertical. A convergent squint is also called cross-eye. There are two types of squint: paralytic, arising from disease or damage involving the extraocular muscles or their nerve ...
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