asquint
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of asquint
1200–50; Middle English, equivalent to a- a- 1 + squint, of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Marcy Borders was a 28-year-old Bank of America worker when the photograph of her staring into the lens with her eyes asquint and her mouth agape was taken.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2015
All of these were so asquint in mind in the first life that they made no spending there with measure.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Norton, Charles Eliot
Deem not in ambush here to lurk by night, Into the woman-state asquint to pry; A day-devourer, and an evening spy!
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
There I beheld a one-eyed man asquint with a ruinous eye.
From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes by Eliot, Charles William
ASKLENT, ASCLENT, ASKLINT, adv. obliquely; asquint; on one side.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
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