Blink
Blink (blink) , intransitive verb
[Old English blenken; akin to dan. blinke, Swedish blinka, German blinken to shine, glance, wink, twinkle, Dutch blinken to shine; and prob. to Dutch blikken to glance, twinkle, German blicken to look, glance, Anglo-Saxon blīcan to shine, English bleak. r98. See Bleak; compare 1st Blench.]
1.
To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.
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.
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.
The sun blinked fair on pool and stream.
4.
To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
Blink , transitive verb
1.
To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
2.
To trick; to deceive. [Scottish] — Jamieson
Blink , noun
[Old English blink. See Blink, v. i. ]
1.
A glimpse or glance.
This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
2.
Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. — Sir W. Scott
Not a blink of light was there.
3.
(Nautical) 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. [Provincial English]