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Blink   /blɪŋk/   Listen
noun
Blink  n.  
1.
A glimpse or glance. "This is the first blink that ever I had of him."
2.
Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. "Not a blink of light was there."
3.
(Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
4.
pl. (Sporting) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Blink  v. t.  
1.
To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
2.
To trick; to deceive. (Scot.)


Blink  v. i.  (past & past part. blinked; pres. part. blinking)  
1.
To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. "One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame."
2.
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."
3.
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."
4.
To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.





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"Blink" Quotes from Famous Books



... He did not blink the fact that there were many disparities, and that there would be certain disadvantages which could never be quite overcome. The fact had been brought rather strenuously home to him by his interview with Cynthia's father. He perceived, as indeed he ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... however, were accustomed to an atmosphere of that kind, and it did not trouble them. For the most part, they were lean and spare, bronzed by frost and snow-blink, and straight of limb, for, though scarcely half of them were Canadian born, the prairie, as a rule, swiftly sets its stamp upon the newcomer. There was also something in the way they held themselves and put their feet ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... swell of the rampart for about twenty yards, where it opened into a dimly lighted chamber about four feet high. A little blink of light came through a rabbit hole, at the end of which I saw a spray of gorse with the sunlight on it. I could see by the dim light that the chamber was built of unmortared stones, very cleverly laid. The floor ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield
... the second cigar Rupert shifted under his master's patent-leather boots and raised his huge head. His eyes blinked out of their sleep, then ceased to blink and became attentive. Then his ears, which had been lying down on each side of his head in the suavest attitude which such features of a dog can assume, lifted themselves up and pointed grimly forward as he listened ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... edge of the dell with Edwards and Stubbs, who acted as his seconds, trying to laugh and chat in an unconcerned manner, but he was pale, could hardly keep himself still in one position, and frequently glanced stealthily in the direction by which the other would come. Not to blink matters between the reader and myself, he was in a funk. Not exactly a blue funk, you know, but still he did not half like it, and wished he was ...
— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough


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