To look out of the corners of one’s eyes, to leer, to look askance. The cull cutty-eyed at us; the fellow looked suspicious at us.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
to cut bene * dabNathan Bailey's 1721 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes