asquint

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asquint - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Asquint \A*squint"\, adv. [Cf. Askant, Squint.]
     With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line
     of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to
     look asquint.
     [1913 Webster]

asquint - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  asquint
      adj 1: (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, askant, asquint, squint,
             squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong]