- (v.i.) To see with the eyes half shut or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
- (v.i.) To wink; to twinkle with or as with, the eye.
- (v.i.) To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
- (v.i.) Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
- (v.i.) A glimpse or glance.
- (v.t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
- (pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
- (v.t.) To trick; to deceive.
- (v.i.) To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
- (v.i.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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