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Winking   /wˈɪŋkɪŋ/   Listen
Winking

noun
1.
A reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly.  Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink.
adjective
1.
Closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly.  Synonym: blinking.



Wink

verb
(past & past part. winked; pres. part. winking)
1.
Signal by winking.
2.
Gleam or glow intermittently.  Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, winkle.
3.
Briefly shut the eyes.  Synonyms: blink, nictate, nictitate.
4.
Force to go away by blinking.  Synonyms: blink, blink away.



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"Winking" Quotes from Famous Books



... brilliancy are also variable. The star Megrez, d in the Great Bear, has been growing dim [Page 222] for a century. In 1836 Betelguese was exceedingly variable, and continued so till 1840, when the changes became much less conspicuous. Algol (Fig. 68) has been already referred to. This slowly winking eye is of the second magnitude during 2d. 14h. Then it dozes off toward sleep for 4h. 24m., when it is nearly invisible. It wakes up during the same time; so that its period from maximum brilliancy to the same state again is 2d. 20h. 48m. Its ...
— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren

... you deliberately torturing me?" she complained, winking with the pain of his good intentions. "I don't believe he does want to murder you. I think that was just Saunders trying to make a dandy good job of it. He doesn't like you, anyway—witness the way you bawled him out that day you roped—ow-w!—roped the dog. Baumberger may have wanted him to keep ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower

... deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country-green, Dance, and Provenal song,{3} and sun-burnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,{4} With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin

... She was winking hard to keep back the tears. Twice she attempted to speak and failed. "Never mind her, dear," said Julia, slipping her arm about Grace, while the other girls gathered round with many expressions of displeasure at ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower

... holding the whip and the rein, His gaze fixed on Brenda, who tosses her mane; While dear little Floss sits quietly by, Winking and ...
— Chatterbox Stories of Natural History • Anonymous


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