Blink /(blĭṉk)/
Blink
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Blinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinking
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To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.
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To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
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To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
The sun blinked fair on pool and stream .
- To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
Blink
v. t.
- To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
- To trick; to deceive. [Scot.]
Blink
n.
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A glimpse or glance.
This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
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Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
Not a blink of light was there.
- The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink. (Naut.)
- Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. (Sporting) [Prov. Eng.]