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Askant

adj, adv, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Aslant, sloping. archaic

    "While appearing to listen to Adelaide, her eyes wandered over me with speculation askant in them."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Aslant; to one side, askance. archaic

    "And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken."

Verb
  1. 1
    Dated form of askance. alt-of, dated

Etymology

Etymology 1

Alteration of askance, apparently after aslant.

Etymology 2

Alteration of askance, apparently after aslant.

Etymology 3

Alteration of askance, apparently after aslant.

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