“That`s it,” Chris said, blinking and pointing to the cigarette smoke. So if you want step-by-step instructions from a map app or real-time condition monitoring, you can actually see them without squinting. Roethlisberger flinched and looked desperately at the sky, like a tourist squinting in New York. In 1599, in the defined sense of intransitive 1a, Bonnebault narrowed his eyes and his physical appearance did not hide his depravity. Increase your test score with programs developed by Vocabulary.com experts. You have to squint very hard for the novel to begin to align with reality. “I`m not making hasty promises,” Captain Downs said as he walked over to the railing and blinked at the top basket. When you blink, you can see Home Depot behind, sparkling bright and orange in the clear Texas air. The measured gestures of the little preachers corresponded to memorizations and errors sufficient to make the eyes squint .
probably aphetic form of earlier a strabismus, back in Middle English a squynt, in the expression beholden (loken) a squynt “to be wrinkled, to look oblique”, from a- a- input 1 + squynt, of uncertain origin I tensed and I squinted my eyes a little like, Ooooh, it`s going to hurt. You blink when you squeeze your eyes almost closed. If you`re trying to see something from afar, you`ll probably squint as you strain your eyes to see more clearly. No squinting showman could ever guess; It`s a shock to discover that he`s 20 years older than you`ve always thought. Note: Middle English a squynt, asquint has been compared to the Dutch schuin “aslant, obliquely, schief” (unknown in Middle Dutch, first attested as schuyn “transversus, obliquus” in Cornelis Kiliaan`s Dutch-Latin dictionary, 1599), although the nature of the relationship is unclear. (Schuin Dutch is parallel to Gronings Schuun [West Low German], Low German schã1/4n, hypothetically from Germanic *skeuni-.) The Asquint form is attested very early, already in the Ancrene Wisse (as an addition in a manuscript, British Library Cotton Nero A.14, mid-13th century), but if a presumed Old Middle Dutch [sÏy:n] before the development of the diphthongs is the source, -squint seems to be an unlikely outcome. Variants without t (from skwyn “oblique”, askoyn, ascoign “askance”) may have a more direct relationship with Schun Dutch. It was the way they bathed the field, the bleachers and made him blink. Ekaterina Samutsevich tried not to squint in the bright light of the studio lamps. “Now you`ve cut your comedy until I can squint my eyes,” Fisheye said impatiently. When the sun shines through the windshield of the car, the driver blinks or presses his eyes almost closed against the bright light. This is probably the right time for the rider to grab her sunglasses! You blink when a light suddenly comes on in a dark room, and you can also squint when you try to read a little handwriting on a food label or medicine bottle.
The expression on your face and the act of doing so is also known as strabismus. Strabismus comes from the now rare adverb asquint or “out of the corner of the eye”. “Port and head acrost us,” grunted the master after sniffing the air and flashing the slow wave.