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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

blink, blinking, blinky, breath, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, coup, crack, firefly, flash, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten, glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery, glowworm, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, jiffy, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, scintilla, scintillant, scintillating, scintillation, scintillescent, sec, second, shake, shimmer, shimmering, shimmery, spangle, spangly, spark, sparkle, sparkling, split second, stroboscopic light, stroke, tick, tinsel, tinselly, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkly, twitch, two shakes, wink

Dictionary Results for twinkling:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

twinkling
    adj 1: shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling
           stars"
    n 1: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or
         the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a
         flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat,
         instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling,
         wink, New York minute]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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   2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a
      sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.
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   3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
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            In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
            trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
                                                  --1 Cor. xv.
                                                  52.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Twinkle \Twin"kle\ (tw[i^][ng]"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   Twinkled (tw[i^][ng]"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Twinkling
   (tw[i^][ng]"kl[i^]ng).] [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.
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            The owl fell a moping and twinkling.  --L' Estrange.
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   2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light;
      to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
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            These stars do not twinkle when viewed through
            telescopes that have large apertures. --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
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            The western sky twinkled with stars.  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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