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   Blink , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blinked ; 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. blīcan to shine, E. bleak. √98. See Bleak; cf. 1st Blench.]
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   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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   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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   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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   To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
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   Blink, v. t.
   To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
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   To trick; to deceive. [Scot.]
   Jamieson.
   
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   Blink, n. [OE. blink. See Blink, v. i. ]
   A glimpse or glance.
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   This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
   Bp. Hall.
   
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   Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   Not a blink of light was there.
   Wordsworth.
   
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   (Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
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   pl. [Cf. Blencher.] (Sporting) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [Prov. Eng.]
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