Wink: Definition and part of speech

Wink

  1. n. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
  2. v. i. To nod; to sleep; to nap.
  3. v. i. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
  4. v. i. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
  5. v. i. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
  6. v. i. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; — generally with at.
  7. v. i. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
  8. v. t. To cause (the eyes) to wink.
  9. n. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
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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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