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Webster 1913 Edition

Blink

Blink

(blĭṉk)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Blinked
(blĭṉkt)
;
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. blī
can
to shine, E.
bleak
. √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.
Shakespeare
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.

Blink

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk;
as, to
blink
the question
.
2.
To trick; to deceive.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

Blink

,
Noun.
[OE.
blink
. See
Blink
,
Verb.
I.
]
1.
A glimpse or glance.
This is the first
blink
that ever I had of him.
Bp. Hall.
2.
Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
Sir W. Scott.
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.
pl.
[Cf.
Blencher
.]
(Sporting)
Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Blink

BLINK

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To wink; to twinkle with the eye.
2.
To see obscurely. Johnson. Is it not to see with the eyes half shut, or with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes?
One eye was blinking and one leg was lame.

BLINK

,
Noun.
A glimpse or glance.

BLINK

,
Noun.
Blink of ice, is the dazzling whiteness about the horizon, occasioned by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea.

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