To make light; to illuminate or brighten.
To lighten; to reduce in weight or heaviness.
To alight, to dismount or get down from.
To alight; to land, to descend and rest.
To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
To close one's eyes.
Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
Synonym of periwinkle
A brief time; an instant.
The smallest possible amount.
A subtle allusion.
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)