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Word Meanings - WINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
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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 the eyelids with a quick motion. He must wink, so loud he would cry. Chaucer. And I will wink, so shall the day seem night. Shak. They are not blind, but they wink. Tillotson. 3. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day. Hawthorne. 4. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate. Swift. 5. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at. The times of this ignorance God winked at. Acts xvii. 30. And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign. Herbert. Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued. Locke. 6. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks. Winking monkey , the white-nosed monkey .
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- BLINK-EYED
Habitually winking. Marlowe. - PRETERMIT
To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon. - OVERLOOK
1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did - CONNIVE
1. To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye. Spectator. 2. To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink ; to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to - BLINKARD
1. One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell. 2. That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill. - CONNIVENCY
Connivance. - BLINK BEER
Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb. - CONNIVER
One who connives. - BLINKER
A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, blinks. 2. A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs - IGNORE
To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus. 3. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; - OVERLOOKER
One who overlooks. - BLINK
glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS. blican to shine, 1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope 2. To see - CONNIVENT
Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc. (more info) 1. Forbearing to see; designedly - SUNBLINK
A glimpse or flash of the sun. Sir W. Scott. - MOONBLINK
A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia. - SIGNOR; SIGNORE
Sir; Mr; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians. Before a noun the form is Signor. - MONSIGNORE
My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court.