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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.

Holland.

A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling;

as, the

twinkling

of the stars

The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.

In a moment, in the

twinkling

of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible.

1 Cor. xv. 52.

Noun.

A sparkling; a shining with intermitted light; as the twinkling of the stars.

A motion of the eye.

A moment; an instant; the time of a wink.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump--the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Cor.15.

ppr.

Sparkling.