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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blink \Blink\, n. [OE. blink. See {Blink}, v. i. ] 1. A glimpse or glance. This is the first blink that ever I had of him --Bp. Hall. 2. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. --Sir W. Scott. Not a blink of light was there --Wordsworth. 3. (Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink. 4. pl [Cf. {Blencher}.] (Sporting) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them [Prov. Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blink \Blink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blinked}; p. pr & vb n. {Blinking}.] [OE. blenken akin to dan. blinke, Sw blinka, G. blinken to shine, glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look glance, AS bl[=i]can to shine, E. bleak. [root]98. See {Bleak}; cf 1st {Blench}.] 1. To wink; to twinkle with or as with the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. --Pope 2. 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. --Shak. 3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast the stars began to blink. --Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . --Sir W. Scott. 4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blink \Blink\, v. t. 1. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as to blink the question. 2. To trick; to deceive. [Scot.] --Jamieson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: blink n : a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn: {eye blink}] v 1: briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink" [syn: {wink}, {nictitate}, {nictate}] 2: force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears" [syn: {wink}, {blink away}] 3: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: {flash}, {wink}, {twinkle}, {winkle}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: blink vi.,n. To use a navigator or off-line message reader to minimize time spent on-line to a commercial network service (a necessity in many places outside the U.S. where the telecoms monopolies charge per-minute for local calls). This term attained wide use in the UK but is rare or unknown in the US
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