Word Meanings - BLINK-EYED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Habitually winking. Marlowe.

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• WINKLE
  Any periwinkle. Holland. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica). Note: These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters
• WINK
  beckon, OHG. winchan, Sw. vinka, Dan. vinke, AS. wancol wavering, OHG. wanchal wavering, wanch to waver, G. wanken, and perhaps to E. 1. To nod; to sleep; to nap. "Although I wake or wink." Chaucer. 2. To shut the eyes quickly; to close
• WINKINGLY
  In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed. Peacham.
• WINKER
  1. One who winks. Pope. 2. A horse's blinder; a blinker.
• WINKLE-HAWK
  A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole. Bartlett.
• SWINKER
  A laborer. Chaucer.
• TWINKLE
  1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. 2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. These stars not twinkle when
• EYEWINKER
  An eyelash.
• CHEWINK
  An american bird of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.
• TWINKLING
  1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland. 2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars. 3. The time of a wink; a moment;
• TIDDLYWINKS
  See KIPLING
• TOSWINK
  To labor excessively. Chaucer.
• PERIWINKLE
  Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species , in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina. Note: In America the name is often applied
• HOODWINK
  1. To blind by covering the eyes. We will blind and hoodwink him. Shak. 2. To cover; to hide. Shak. 3. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. "Hoodwinked with kindness." Sir P. Sidney.
• TWINK
  To twinkle.
• SWINK
  To labor; to toil; to salve. Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.
• TIDDLEDYWINKS
  A game in which the object is to snap small disks of bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; --called also tiddlywinks.
• TWINKLER
  One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.
• PINNYWINKLES
  An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into
• EYEWINK
  A wink; a token. Shak.