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English Dictionary: wink	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for wink
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wink n a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" Synonym(s): blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute closing one eye quickly as a signal a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly Synonym(s): blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation v signal by winking; "She winked at him" gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" Synonym(s): flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink" Synonym(s): blink, wink, nictitate, nictate force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears" Synonym(s): wink, blink, blink away
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wink \Wink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Winked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winking}.] [OE. winken, AS. wincian; akin to D. wenken, G. winken to wink, nod, beckon, OHG. winchan, Sw. vinka, Dan. vinke, AS. wancol wavering, OHG. wanchal wavering, wanch[?]n to waver, G. wanken, and perhaps to E. weak; cf. AS. wincel a corner. Cf. {Wench}, {Wince}, v. i.] 1. To nod; to sleep; to nap. [Obs.] [bd]Although I wake or wink.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion. He must wink, so loud he would cry. --Chaucer. And I will wink, so shall the day seem night. --Shak. They are not blind, but they wink. --Tillotson. 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. --Hawthorne. 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. --Swift. 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. --Acts xvii. 30. And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign. --Herbert. Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued. --Locke. 6. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks. {Winking monkey} (Zo[94]l.), the white-nosed monkey ({Cersopithecus nictitans}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wink \Wink\, v. t. To cause (the eyes) to wink.[Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wink \Wink\, n. 1. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment. I have not slept one wink. --Shak. I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink. --Donne. 2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. --Sir. P. Sidney. The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down, And tips you, the freeman, a wink. --Swift.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wink, TX (city, FIPS 79768) Location: 31.75523 N, 103.15437 W Population (1990): 1189 (465 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79789