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To twinkle. [Obs.]

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

One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland.

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

That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill.

appearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.

Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of the stars." W. Irving.

ortion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 1 Cor. xv. 52.

To glimmer; to twinkle. [Obs.] Yet can I mark how stars above Simper and shine. Herbert.

rticles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle. A mantelet upon his shoulder hanging Bretful of rubies red, as fire sparkling. Chaucer.

in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulæ. His eyen twinkled in his head aright, As do the stars in the frosty night. Chaucer.

t; - - used chiefly in Scripture and poetry. We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. The wakeful trump of doom. Milton.

] Which maids will twire 'tween their fingers. B. Jonson. I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee. Beau. & Fl.