[CROSS- 4 c.] a. pl. Squinting eyes. b. That sort of squint in which the eyes are turned inwards so that the axes of vision cross each other; internal strabismus.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 302. I cannot abide these ‘cross-eyes,’ as the country people call them; though I have heard of ladies who … admired those of Mr. Wilkes.
Hence Cross-eyed a., squinting.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, II. 260. Cross-eyed he was.
1816. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XLII. 139. A cross-eyed effort, which criticism should blush to admire.
1892. R. Kipling, Barrack-room Ball., Yng. Brit. Soldier, x. When ’arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch, Don’t call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch.
