Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STRA'BISM, n. [L. strabismus, from strata, strobo, a squint-eyed person.]

1. A non-coincidence of the optic axes of the eyes upon an object, occasioned by a permanent lengthening of one of the lateral muscles of the ball of the eye, and a permanent shortening of its antagonist.
2. A squinting; the act or habit of looking asquint.