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Winking   /wˈɪŋkɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Wink  v. t.  To cause (the eyes) to wink.(Colloq.)


Wink  v. i.  (past & past part. winked; pres. part. winking)  
1.
To nod; to sleep; to nap. (Obs.) "Although I wake or wink."
2.
To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion. "He must wink, so loud he would cry." "And I will wink, so shall the day seem night." "They are not blind, but they wink."
3.
To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. "A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day."
4.
To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. "Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate."
5.
To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; generally with at. "The times of this ignorance God winked at." "And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign." "Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued."
6.
To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
Winking monkey (Zool.), the white-nosed monkey (Cersopithecus nictitans).





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"Winking" Quotes from Famous Books



... grace upon her in these days that all saw. Over her real wit and native vivacity, it was like a porcelain shade about a flame. One could look at it, and be glad of it, without winking. The brightness was all there, but there was a difference in the giving forth. What had been a bit self-centred and self-conscious—bright as if only for being bright and for dazzling—was outgoing and self-forgetful, and so softened. Leslie Goldthwaite read by it a new answer to some of ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... intended victim or not we cannot say, but it crouched for another spring. The professor, almost instinctively, crouched also, and, being a brave man, stared the animal straight in the face without winking! and so the two crouched there, absolutely motionless and with a fixed glare, such as we have often seen in a couple of tom-cats who were mutually afraid ...
— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne
... Alicia, winking her eyes to keep back the moisture in them, "though it was only when ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... whose eyes rested on her as she spoke, beckon'd me, very mysterious, outside the cabin, and winking slily, whisper'd loud enough to ...
— The Splendid Spur • Arthur T. Quiller Couch
... here—mother," interrupted Gypsy, jumping up and winking very fast, "isn't there a train up from Boston early Monday morning? She might ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


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