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Blink   /blɪŋk/   Listen
Blink

noun
1.
A reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly.  Synonyms: blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking.
verb
(past & past part. blinked; pres. part. blinking)
1.
Briefly shut the eyes.  Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink.
2.
Force to go away by blinking.  Synonyms: blink away, wink.
3.
Gleam or glow intermittently.  Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle.



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"Blink" Quotes from Famous Books



... politician With more heads than a beast in vision, And more intrigues in ev'ry one Than all the whores of Babylon: So politic, as if one eye 355 Upon the other were a spy, That, to trepan the one to think The other blind, both strove to blink; And in his dark pragmatick way, As busy as a child at play. 360 H' had seen three Governments run down, And had a hand in ev'ry one; Was for 'em and against 'em all, But barb'rous when they came to fall For, by trepanning th' old to ruin, ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler

... of furniture and ornaments in the whole room were all so brilliant to the sight, and so vying in splendour that they made the head to swim and the eyes to blink, and old goody Liu did nothing else the while than nod her head, smack her lips and invoke Buddha. Forthwith she was led to the eastern side into the suite of apartments, where was the bedroom of Chia Lien's eldest daughter. P'ing Erh, who was ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... parlour, or office, on the left-hand side, "warm in winter and cool in summer. It has a look of homely welcome and soothing rest. It has a remarkably cosy fireside, the very blink of which, gleaming out into the street upon a winter's night, is enough to warm all Rochester's heart." The matron receives us politely, and shows us two large books of foolscap size with ruled columns, one of these containing a record of the visitors to the Charity, ...
— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... the use of a 'square-fender,' when Dick can get down his 'postman's knock' over the top, and blink his ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed

... that, didn't you?" he demanded, again from the corner of his mouth. "Flush on the chin I took it. And it never made me blink. Hit? He couldn't dent cream cheese. If I'd ever a'ripped one into him like that I'd a'torn away half his lid. Watch this, now—watch this, because it's ...
— Winner Take All • Larry Evans


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