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Asquint

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Adverb

HYPHEN

a=squint

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Asquint has 1 sense

asquint(s = adj.all) askance, askant, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty - (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"; "sidelong glances"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Asquint, 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]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Asquint, predic.adj. & adv. (usu. look asquint).
1 to one side; from the corner of an eye.
2 with a squint.

Etymology

ME perh. f. Du. schuinte slant

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