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A bench. [North of Eng. & Scot.]

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope

Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb.

Habitually winking. Marlowe.

One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell.

One who, or that which, blinks.

led also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. W. Irving.

ce, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

A drinking between meals. [Obs.]

See Pinkboot.

An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

See Clnquant.

A kind of brick. See Dutch klinker, under Dutch.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

f the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalites or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. The houscrinkled to and fro. Chaucer. Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs.…