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71slanting — adj sloping, oblique, slanted, inclined, tilted, atilt; leaning, stooping, canting, listing, diagonal; abaxial, plagihedral, rhomboidal, eater cornered, Brit. wonky, Brit. skew whiff; askew, skew, aslant, awry, wry, askant, asquint; biased,… …
72squint — /skwɪnt / (say skwint) verb (i) 1. to look with the eyes partly closed. 2. to be affected with strabismus; be cross eyed. 3. to look or glance obliquely or sideways; look askance. –verb (t) 4. to close (the eyes) partly in looking. 5. to cause to …
73squint — [14] Squint is short for the now nearly defunct asquint [13], which may have been based on the ancestor of Dutch schuinte ‘slope, slant’, a derivative of schuin ‘sideways, sloping’. The origins of this are not known …
74squint — [skwint] vi. [aphetic for ASQUINT] 1. to look or peer with the eyes partly closed, as when the light is too strong 2. to look with the eyes turned to the side; look obliquely or askance 3. to be cross eyed 4. to incline or have a tendency (toward …
75skime — to look asquint, to glee. N …
76askant — adjective (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy her eyes with their misted askance look Elizabeth Bowen sidelong glances • Syn: ↑askance, ↑asquint, ↑squint, ↑squint eyed, ↑squinty, ↑ …
77squint-eyed — adjective 1. affected by strabismus • Pertains to noun: ↑squint 2. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy her eyes with their misted askance look Elizabeth Bowen sidelong glances • Syn:… …
78squinty — adjective 1. characterized by squinting he looked with squinty eyes • Pertains to noun: ↑squint 2. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy her eyes with their misted askance look Elizabeth… …
79squinny — I. ˈskwinē verb ( ed/ ing/ es) Etymology: probably from obsolete English squin asquint (from Middle English skuin) + English y (diminutive suffix) : squint II …
80Gly — Biochem. glycine. * * * gly obs. form of glee v., to look asquint …
