Blink: Definition and part of speech

Blink

  1. pl. Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
  2. v. i. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
  3. v. i. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
  4. v. i. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
  5. v. i. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
  6. v. t. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
  7. v. t. To trick; to deceive.
  8. v. i. A glimpse or glance.
  9. v. i. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
  10. v. i. The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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