squint-eyed, a.
(ˈskwɪntaɪd)
[f. squint adv.]
1. Of persons: Having squint eyes; affected with squint or strabismus.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xiv. (Arb.) 48 He was squint eyed and had a very vnpleasant countenance. 1602 Breton Wonders Worth Hearing Wks. (Grosart) II. 8/1 Though she were squinte eyed,..wry bodyed, and splay footed. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. viii. (1674) 147 Those glass-eyes which squint ey'd-people wore. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 6/2 People hump-back'd, squint-eyed, crooked and lame. 1753 Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 37, I have since learned, that this Patient..became squint-ey'd and deformed. 1848 Buckley Iliad 165 Daughters, halt, and wrinkled, and squint-eyed. 1872 Black Adv. Phaeton xix. 261 That squint-eyed publican who thrashes his wife. |
b. In allusive or fig. use.
| 1563 A. Nevill in Googe Eglogs (Arb.) 23 Defye them all. µισάνθρωποι and squynteyd Monsters ryght They are. 1591 Harington Orl. Fur. Pref., Euerie blind corner hath a squint eyed Zoilus, that can looke a right vpon no mans doings. 1620–6 Quarles Feast for Worms 855 Wks. (Grosart) II. 17 Others, whom the squint-ey'd world counts holy. Ibid. 1482 (p. 22), Heart-gnawing Hatred, and Squint-ey'd Suspition. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler 21 All the squint-ey'd, wry-neck'd, and brazen-faced Errors that are..of that litter. 1712 Parnell Spect. No. 460 ¶3 Upon the broad Top of it resided squint-eyed Errour, and Popular Opinion with many Heads. 1755 Brown Barbarossa i. i, In these walks..wakeful suspicion dwells, And squint-eyed jealousy. |
2. Characterized by squint or oblique vision. Also fig.
| 1598 Marston Pygmal., Sat. ii, Who would imagine that such squint-ey'd sight Could strike the worlds deformities so right. 1616 R. Carpenter Larum Love 49 That squint-ey'd partialitie, so much condemned by the Apostle. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Pol. Touchstone 401 A squint-ey'd look, wherewith while she seem to look fixedly upon one, she is very intent on observing another. 1661 Hickeringill Jamaica 71 To which squint-ey'd Mode in war Scanderbeg stands endebted for most of his Victories against the Ottomanes. |
Hence squint-eyedness.
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Entortadura,..squinteidnes, crookedness. |