'Blinking' definitions:
Definition of 'Blinking'
From: GCIDE
- Blink \Blink\ (bl[i^][ng]k), v. i. [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[imac]can to shine, E. bleak. [root]98. See Bleak; cf. 1st Blench.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. [1913 Webster]
- One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. --Pope [1913 Webster]
- 2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. [1913 Webster]
- Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. [1913 Webster]
- The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blinking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- aflicker,
- asquint,
- astigmatic,
- bickering,
- blasted,
- bleeding,
- blink,
- blink-eyed,
- blinkard,
- blinky,
- blooming,
- complete,
- coruscant,
- coruscating,
- coruscation,
- cursed,
- cussed,
- damnable,
- dancing,
- downright,
- execrable,
- farsighted,
- firefly,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- fluttering,
- fluttering the eyelids,
- fluttery,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- glimmerous,
- glimmery,
- glisten,
- glistening,
- glister,
- glistering,
- glitter,
- glittering,
- glittery,
- glowworm,
- infernal,
- lambent,
- longsighted,
- mope-eyed,
- myopic,
- nearsighted,
- nictitation,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perfect,
- playing,
- poor-sighted,
- presbyopic,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- scintilla,
- scintillant,
- scintillating,
- scintillation,
- scintillescent,
- shimmer,
- shimmering,
- shimmery,
- shortsighted,
- spangle,
- spangly,
- spark,
- sparkle,
- sparkling,
- squinch-eyed,
- squint-eyed,
- squinting,
- squinty,
- strabismal,
- strabismic,
- stroboscopic,
- stroboscopic light,
- tinsel,
- tinselly,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twinkly,
- unmitigated,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- winker,
- winking