Hypertext Webster Gateway: "twinkling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Twinkling \Twin"kling\, n.
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; an instant.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
--1 Cor. xv.
52.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Twinkle \Twin"kle\, 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.
The owl fell a moping and twinkling. --L' Estrange.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
twinkling
adj : shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling
stars" [syn: {twinkling(a)}]
n : a very short time (as the time it takes to blink once); "if
I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: {blink of an
eye}, {flash}, {instant}, {jiffy}, {split second}, {trice},
{wink}, {New York minute}]
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