Webster's English Dictionary

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blink

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  1. wink                  
 
1. blink \'blink\ vb [ME blinken to open one's eyes] obs  1a: to look 
   glancingly : PEEP  1b: to look with half-shut winking eyes  1c: to wink 
   esp. involuntarily  2: to shine dimly or intermittently  3a: to look with 
   too little concern  3b: to look with surprise or dismay  1a: to cause to 
   blink  1b: to remove (as tears) from the eye by blinking  2: to deny 
   recognition to 
2. blink n chiefly Scot  1: GLIMPSE, GLANCE  2: GLIMMER, SPARKLE  3: an 
   esp. involuntary shutting and opening of the eye  4a: a whiteness about the 
   horizon caused by the reflection of light from ic e at sea 4b: a dark 
   appearance of the sky about the horizon caused by the absence of  reflected 
   light due to open water : in or into a disabled or useless condition  - on 
   the blink