From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blink \Blink\, verb (used with an object)
1. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
2. To trick; to deceive. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blink \Blink\, noun [OE. blink. See {Blink}, verb (used without an object) ]
This is the first blink that ever I had of him. --Bp. Hall.
2. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. --Sir W. Scott.
Not a blink of light was there. --Wordsworth.
3. (Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
4. pl. [Cf. {Blencher}.] (Sporting) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blink \Blink\ (bl[i^][ng]k), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blinked} (bl[i^][ng]kt); 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) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn: {eye blink}, {blinking}, {wink}, {winking}, {nictitation}, {nictation}]
verb
1: briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink" [syn: {wink}, {nictitate}, {nictate}]
2: force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears" [syn: {wink}, {blink away}]
3: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: {flash}, {wink}, {twinkle}, {winkle}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "blink": albedo, avoid, bat, bat the eyes, blench, blink at, blinking, broken, carefully ignore, cast, cold-shoulder, coruscate, coruscation, cringe, cut a corner, cut corners, disregard, dodge, draw back, duck, evade, fade, fall back, firefly, flash, flicker, flinch, fudge, funk, glance, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, glisk, glisten, glister, glitter, glittering, glowworm, half an eye, hang back, ice sky, iceblink, ignore, in disrepair, incident light, jib, move, nictitate, on the blink, on the fritz, out of order, out of whack, overlook, pass over, pass over lightly, peek, peep, pull back, quail, quick sight, rapid glance, recoil, reel back, reflectance, reflection, retreat, scamp, scintilla, scintillate, scintillation, sheer off, shimmer, shimmering, shrink, shrink back, shy, sidestep, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slant, slight, slubber over, slur, slur over, snowblink, spangle, spark, sparkle, squiz, start, start aside, start back, stroboscopic light, swerve, tinsel, touch upon, touch upon lightly, turn aside, twinkle, twinkling, water sky, waterblink, weasel, weasel out, wince, wink, wink at
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
blink vi.,n. To use a navigator or off-line message reader to minimize time spent on-line to a commercial network service (a necessity in many places outside the U.S. where the telecoms monopolies charge per-minute for local calls). This term attained wide use in the UK, but is rare or unknown in the US.
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