Blink

Definition of Blink

Pronunciation: blĭņk

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Blinked (blĭņkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Blinking.]
	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.
v. t.	1.	To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
	2.	To trick; to deceive.
n.	1.	A glimpse or glance. This is the first blink that ever I had of him. - Bp. Hall.
	2.	Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. Not a blink of light was there. - Wordsworth.
	3.	(Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
	4.	(Sporting) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.

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