blinketh

Verb

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

1. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
   • The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.
   1. (intransitive, transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
      • She blinked her tears away.
   2. (intransitive) To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
      • One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.1715–1720, Homer, “Book II”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
   3. (intransitive) 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.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
   4. (intransitive) To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
      • The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.1800, William Wordsworth, The Pet-Lamb
   5. (Geordie, intransitive, obsolete) To glance.
      • Now exile is over, I'll fly to the north,
        The home of my childhood, the place of my birth;
        O the transports of gladness that over me reign,
        To blink upon canny Newcastle again!1850, J. P. Robson, editor, Songs of the bards of the Tyne; or, A choice selection of original songs chiefly in the Newcastle dialect., page 485

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