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English Dictionary: twinkling	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
twinkling adj shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling stars" 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twinkle \Twin"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Twinkled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Twinkling}.] [OE. twinklen, AS. twinclian; akin to OE. twinken to blink, wink, G. zwinken, zwinkern, and perhaps to E. twitch.] 1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. --L' Estrange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twinkling \Twin"kling\, n. 1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. --Holland. 2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars. 3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. --1 Cor. xv. 52.