Word Meanings - ASQUINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.

RENEW
To make new spiritually; to regenerate. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom. xii. 2. (more info) 1. To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re In such a night Medea
RENEWABLE
Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure. Swift.
RENEWER
One who, or that which, renews.
OBLIQUELY
In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. "Truth obliquely leveled." Bp. Fell. Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. Pope His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others. Addison.
ASLANT
Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.
RENEWAL
The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.
RENEWEDNESS
The state of being renewed.
ASQUINT
With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.
RENEWEDLY
Again; once more.
RENEWABILITY
The quality or state of being renewable.
ASKANCE; ASKANT
Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.