Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blinking"
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
blinking
adj 1: off-and-on; "the blinking signal light"
2: closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; he stood
blinking in the bright sunlight" [syn: {winking}]
3: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or
blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore";
"you flaming idiot" [syn: {bally(a)}, {blinking(a)}, {bloody(a)},
{crashing(a)}, {flaming(a)}, {fucking(a)}]
n : a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn: {blink},
{eye blink}, {wink}, {winking}, {nictitation}, {nictation}]
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