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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
blinking
    adj 1: closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; "he stood
           blinking in the bright sunlight" [syn: blinking,
           winking]
    2: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance";
       "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn:
       bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a),
       crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)]
    n 1: a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn:
         blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking,
         nictitation, nictation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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   1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
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            One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. --Pope
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   2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with
      frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
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            Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to
      flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
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            The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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            The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
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Thesaurus Results for Blinking:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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