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Wink   /wɪŋk/   Listen
noun
Wink  n.  
1.
The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment. "I have not slept one wink." "I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink."
2.
A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. "The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down, And tips you, the freeman, a wink."


verb
Wink  v. t.  To cause (the eyes) to wink.(Colloq.)


Wink  v. i.  (past & past part. winked; pres. part. winking)  
1.
To nod; to sleep; to nap. (Obs.) "Although I wake or wink."
2.
To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion. "He must wink, so loud he would cry." "And I will wink, so shall the day seem night." "They are not blind, but they wink."
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."
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."
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." "And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign." "Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued."
6.
To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
Winking monkey (Zool.), the white-nosed monkey (Cersopithecus nictitans).





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Wink" Quotes from Famous Books



... is produced from and absorbed into the unmanifest. He who, even for the short space of time that is taken by a single breath, when his end comes, becomes equable, attaining to the self, fits himself for immortality. Restraining the self in the self, even for the space of a wink, one goes, through the tranquillity of the self, to that which constitutes the inexhaustible acquisition of those that are endued with knowledge. Restraining the life-breaths again and again by controlling them according ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... how the passers despise me, They smile at my anguish, I think; And even the sentinel eyes me, And tips that policeman the wink. ...
— London Lyrics • Frederick Locker
... the renegade, he pretended not to know whom I meant; but I saw, by a slight unconscious wink of his eye, that knowing him too well, he wished to see and hear no more of him. As he was rising to take leave, a step was heard creaking on the stairs, and on turning in the direction of the door, I saw the red and white checked turban ...
— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton
... mentally considered that as it was, Steve had looked a "good deal concerned" at the time of their arrival; but not wishing to harrow his feelings any further just then they kept this to themselves; though Bandy-legs did give Toby a suggestive wink, to which the other replied in ...
— At Whispering Pine Lodge • Lawrence J. Leslie
... a-settin On a swingin' limb, He wink at Stephen, Stephen wink at him; Stephen pint de gun, Pull on de trigger, Off go de load— An' ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various


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