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Definition of Blinking
Blinking Blink 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. bl[=i]can to shine, E. bleak. [root]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.
--Shak.
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.
