ˈcross-eye
[cross- 4 c.]
a. pl. Squinting eyes. b. That sort of squint in which the eyes are turned inwards so that the axes of vision cross each other; internal strabismus.
| 1826 Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 302, I cannot abide these ‘cross-eyes’, as the country people call them; though I have heard of ladies who..admired those of Mr. Wilkes. |
Hence ˈcross-eyed a., squinting.
| 1791 Cowper Iliad ii. 260 Cross-eyed he was. 1816 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLII. 139 A cross-eyed effort, which criticism should blush to admire. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, Yng. Brit. Soldier x. |