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 Definitions for Blinking: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Blink \Blink\ (bl[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blinked
(bl[i^][ng]kt); 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[imac]can to shine, E. bleak. [root]98. See Bleak; cf.
1st Blench.]
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1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
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One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. --Pope
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2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with
frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
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Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
--Shak.
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3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to
flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
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The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
--Wordsworth.
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The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . --Sir W.
Scott.
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4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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blinking
adj 1: off-and-on; "the blinking signal light"
2: closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; "he stood
blinking in the bright sunlight" [syn: winking]
3: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or
blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore";
"you flaming idiot" [syn: {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, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "blinking":
absolute, aflicker, asquint, astigmatic, bickering, blasted,
bleeding, blink, blink-eyed, blinkard, blinky, blooming, complete,
coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, cursed, cussed, damnable,
dancing, downright, execrable, farsighted, firefly, flashing,
flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttering the eyelids,
fluttery, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten,
glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery,
glowworm, infernal, lambent, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic,
nearsighted, nictitation, out-and-out, outright, perfect, playing,
poor-sighted, presbyopic, quivering, quivery, scintilla,
scintillant, scintillating, scintillation, scintillescent, shimmer,
shimmering, shimmery, shortsighted, spangle, spangly, spark,
sparkle, sparkling, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinting, squinty,
strabismal, strabismic, stroboscopic, stroboscopic light, tinsel,
tinselly, twinkle, twinkling, twinkly, unmitigated, wavering,
wavery, winker, winking
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