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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.

A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.

A glimpse or flash of the sun. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To blink; to shine; to look. [Obs.]

of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.

. -- Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. Kane. -- Ice blink Etym: [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. -- Ice boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (…

ters connected with land. -- Land boat, a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails. -- Land blink, a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink. -- Land breeze. See under Breeze. -- Land chain. See Gunter's chain. -- Land crab (Zoöl.), any one of vario…

See Moonblink.

To wink; to blink. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

y old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation. Coleridge.

To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange.

To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day. Hawthorne.

A horse's blinder; a blinker.