squint

1. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.Examples: "The children squinted to frighten each other."; "“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.intransitive

3. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.intransitive

4. (intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.Examples: "Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism."figurativelyintransitive

5. (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.Scotlandintransitive

6. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.Examples: "to squint an eye"transitive