To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
Brilliance; luster.
Liveliness; vivacity.
The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.
A little spark; a scintillation.
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”)