Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An eye or eyes affected with esotropia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obliquity of vision; want of concordance in the optic axes; strabismus; squint; specifically, that sort of squint in which both eyes turn toward the nose, so that the rays of light, in passing to the eyes, cross each other; internal strabismus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective convergent strabismus; a disorder in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose rather than directly at the object of vision; crossed eyes.
- noun See
strabismus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
strabismus in which theeyes converge ;esotropia
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose
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Examples
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Let's hope that -one- in the middle dosent turn you into a cross-eye jerk
"Lots of folks are wearing those 2009 glasses, and I suddenly realize that this is the last year for the 00 glasses." Ann Althouse 2009
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For those you will need to learn to freeview or to get another type of viewer such as the kind available here, or you may wish to convert the views from parallel or cross-eye format into anaglyphs using either a viewer option such as DepthCharge or a fully functional program such as Anabuilder.
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For those you will need to learn to freeview or to get another type of viewer such as the kind available here, or you may wish to convert the views from parallel or cross-eye format into anaglyphs using either a viewer option such as DepthCharge or a fully functional program such as Anabuilder.
Life of Brian: 2005
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I can do a cross-eye and my friends want me to teach them how to.
Little Quirks freakymandy 2004
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I have had a _squint_, or _cross-eye_, since birth, and in less than one minute, and with VERY LITTLE PAIN, you have made my eyes perfectly straight and natural.
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Having had a cross-eye cured in one minute, Mr.T. can _therefore_ testify that the system by which he was enabled to see is just the thing to enable the deaf to hear!
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We knew a boy whose cross-eye had been turned straight at the hospital, so I did not worry about my lack of tact.
The Rising of the Moon Mitchell, Gladys 1945
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His ugliness was embittered somewhat by sunken, toothless jaws and an enigmatical stare from a cross-eye; he was also knock-kneed, and as an erstwhile gunpowder worker, had lost two fingers and a large part of one ear.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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The eyes were painted about twice life-size -- some rolled up, some canted down, some squintin 'sideways, and a lot was just cross-eye.
Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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And the merciful instrument was even she of the cross-eye.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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