Word Meanings - TWINKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott.

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• MOPSICAL
  Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
• MOPISH
  Dull; spiritless; dejected. -- Mop"ish*ly, adv. -- Mop"ish*ness, n.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• MOPSEY; MOPSY
  1. A moppet. 2. A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.
• QUAVERER
  One who quavers; a warbler.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• LIGHT-ARMED
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• 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
• LIGHTERAGE
  1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
• LIGHT-O'-LOVE
  1. An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak. 2. Hence: A light or wanton woman. Beau. & Fl.
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• LIGHT-FOOT; LIGHT-FOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• LIGHTHOUSE
  A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• THERMOPHILIC
  Heat-loving; -- applied esp. to certain bacteria.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• CHROMOPHANE
  A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods
• CYMOPHANOUS
  Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• TOMOPTERIS
  A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs . This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• NOMOPELMOUS
  Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.