nictating

Verb

nictate (third-person singular simple present nictates, present participle nictating, simple past and past participle nictated)

1. (intransitive) To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.
   • Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated his dexter eyelid. And I nictated mine. And we both laughed.1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato, Chatto & Windus, published 1963