Blink | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Blink, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [Dan. blinke; Sw. blinka; Ger. blinken, to shine, glance, wink, twinkle; D. blinken, to shine; blikken, to glance, twinkle; Ger. blicken, to look, glance; A-S. blican, to shine.] 1. To wink; to twinkle with the eye; to see with the eyes half shut, or with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope. Show me thy chink to blink through with mine eyne. Shak.

To intermit light; to glimmer, as a lamp.
To smile. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Blink, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. BLINKED (blinkt); p. pr. & vb. n. BLINKING.] To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; as, to blink the question.

Blink, n.

noun

1. A glimpse or glance. Not a blink of light was there. Wordsworth.

Glimmering or intermittent light. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
(Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon occasioned by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea.
(pl.) (Sporting.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [Prov. Eng.] Cotgrave.