Blinking : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Blinking	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Blinking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blinking adj closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight" Synonym(s): blinking, winking informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" Synonym(s): bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a) n a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn: blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blink \Blink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blinking}.] [OE. blenken; akin to dan. blinke, Sw. blinka, G. blinken to shine, glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS. bl[c6]can to shine, E. bleak. [root]98. See {Bleak}; cf. 1st {Blench}.] 1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. --Pope 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. --Shak. 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. --Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . --Sir W. Scott. 4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.