*wink*

n. (Zool.) An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also rufous-sided towhee, towhee, towhee bunting and ground robin. [ Also spelled cheewink. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wink; a token. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An eyelash. [ A child's word. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Hood + wink. ] 1. To blind by covering the eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

We will blind and hoodwink him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover; to hide. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. “Hoodwinked with kindness.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A commonly cultivated Old World woody herb (Vinca rosea) having large pinkish to red flowers.
Syn. -- periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, Cape periwinkle, red periwinkle, cayenne jasmine, Catharanthus roseus, Vinca rosea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From AS. pinewincla a shellfish, in which pine- is fr. L. pina, pinna, a kind of mussel, akin to Gr. &unr_;. Cf. Winkle. ] (Zool.) Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In America the name is often applied to several large univalves, as Fulgur carica, and Fulgur canaliculata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pervenke, AS. pervince, fr. L. pervinca. ] (Bot.) A trailing herb of the genus Vinca. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common perwinkle (Vinca minor) has opposite evergreen leaves and solitary blue or white flowers in their axils. In America it is often miscalled myrtle. See under Myrtle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs. [ Written also pilliewinkles. ] [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. Swank Swonk p. p. Swonken p. pr. & vb. n. Swinking. ] [ AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See Swing. ] To labor; to toil; to salve. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The swinking crowd at every stroke pant “Ho.” Sir Samuel Freguson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To acquire by labor. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

To devour all that others swink. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ As. swinc, geswinc. ] Labor; toil; drudgery. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A laborer. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game in which the object is to snap small disks of plastic, bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; -- called also tiddlywinks. [ U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Same as Tiddledywinks. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ Pref. to- + swink. ] To labor excessively. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. twinken. See Twinkle. ] To twinkle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A wink; a twinkling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The chaffinch. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Twinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Twinkling ] [ OE. twinklen, AS. twinclian; akin to OE. twinken to blink, wink, G. zwinken, zwinkern, and perhaps to E. twitch. ] 1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. [ 1913 Webster ]

The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. [ 1913 Webster ]

These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suddenly, with twinkle of her eye,
The damsel broke his misintended dart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The time of a wink; a twinkling. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Cor. xv. 52. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause (the eyes) to wink.[ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Winked p. pr. & vb. n. Winking. ] [ OE. winken, AS. wincian; akin to D. wenken, G. winken to wink, nod, beckon, OHG. winchan, Sw. vinka, Dan. vinke, AS. wancol wavering, OHG. wanchal wavering, wanch&unr_;n to waver, G. wanken, and perhaps to E. weak; cf. AS. wincel a corner. Cf. Wench, Wince, v. i. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To nod; to sleep; to nap. [ Obs. ] “Although I wake or wink.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

He must wink, so loud he would cry. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I will wink, so shall the day seem night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are not blind, but they wink. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. [ 1913 Webster ]

A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at. [ 1913 Webster ]

The times of this ignorance God winked at. Acts xvii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

And yet, as though he knew it not,
His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Winking monkey (Zool.), the white-nosed monkey (Cersopithecus nictitans). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not slept one wink. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. Sir. P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down,
And tips you, the freeman, a wink. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who winks. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A horse's blinder; a blinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. wincle. ] (Zool.) (a) Any periwinkle. Holland. (b) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (Fulgar canaliculata, and Fulgar carica). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters by drilling their shells and sucking their blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sting winkle, a European spinose marine shell (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex. [ 1913 Webster ]