Verb (used with object) : The baby squinted its eyes at the bright lights. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : Let me have a squint at that paper. From Dictionary.com.
The hagioscope in the chancel appears as a window in the outer wall. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
There are interesting brasses to Luke Garnon, John Cooke and his wife, and a curious squint or hagioscope. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
In the west wall is a hagioscope, and from a room next the chapel a newel staircase led to the priest's room on the floor above. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
From the south transept a hagioscope slants through the wall to the chancel; and in one of the windows of the north aisle is a bit of very old, though not very beautiful, stained glass. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
I have a list like this guimpe hagioscope qanap aassock dearsecloth pegumene. From Wordnik.com. [LinuxQuestions.org] Reference
More probably the hagioscope was intended to be used by the watcher at the sepulchre. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
A hagioscope opens from this chapel into the chancel, and was discovered accidentally when an arch was being cut on the north wall of the chancel to contain the tomb of Lord Bray. From Wordnik.com. [Chelsea The Fascination of London] Reference
It will be noticed also that in the aisle immediately behind is a raised gallery of Decorated character, access to which was gained from the sanctuary by steps on the left side of the bay of the arcade, in which occurs the hagioscope. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Professor Willis placed it more to the westward, thinking that a quatrefoiled opening or hagioscope in the screen wall of the last bay on the north side of the Presbytery (marked. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
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