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To nod; to sleep; to nap. [Obs.] "Although I wake or wink." Chaucer.

One who winks. Pope.

In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed. Peacham.

Any periwinkle. Holland.

A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

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

A wink; a token. Shak.

An eyelash. [A child's word.]

To blind by covering the eyes. We will blind and hoodwink him. Shak.

Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.

th holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs. [Written also pilliewinkles.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.

A laborer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; --called also tiddlywinks. [U. S.]

Same as Tiddledywinks. Kipling.

To labor excessively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.