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Blink \Blink\ (bl[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blinked}
(bl[i^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blinking}.] [OE. blenken;
akin to dan. blinke, Sw. blinka, G. blinken to shine, glance,
wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken
to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS.
bl[imac]can to shine, E. bleak. [root]98. See {Bleak}; cf.
1st {Blench}.]
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1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
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One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. --Pope
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2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with
frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
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Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
--Shak.
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3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to
flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
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The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
--Wordsworth.
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The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . --Sir W.
Scott.
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4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
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Blink \Blink\, v. t.
1. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to
shirk; as, to blink the question.
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2. To trick; to deceive. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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Blink \Blink\, n. [OE. blink. See {Blink}, v. i. ]
1. A glimpse or glance.
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This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
--Bp. Hall.
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2. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. --Sir W. Scott.
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Not a blink of light was there. --Wordsworth.
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3. (Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by
the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice
blink.
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4. pl. [Cf. {Blencher}.] (Sporting) Boughs cast where deer
are to pass, to turn or check them. [Prov. Eng.]
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