| Blink 1. (v. i.) To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. 2. (v. i.) To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. 3. (v. i.) To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. 4. (v. i.) To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc. 5. (v. t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question. 6. (v. t.) To trick; to deceive. 7. (n.) A glimpse or glance. 8. (v. i.) Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. 9. (n.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink. 10. (pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. Thesaurus Entries albedo, avoid, bat, bat the eyes, blench, blink at, blinking, broken, carefully ignore, cast, cold-shoulder, coruscate, coruscation, cringe, cut a corner, cut corners, disregard, dodge, draw back, duck, evade, fade, fall back, firefly, flash, flicker, flinch, fudge, funk, glance, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, glisk, glisten, glister, glitter, glittering, glowworm, half an eye, hang back, ice sky, iceblink, ignore, in disrepair, incident light, jib, move, nictitate, on the blink, on the fritz, out of order, out of whack, overlook, pass over, pass over lightly, peek, peep, pull back, quail, quick sight, rapid glance, recoil, reel back, reflectance, reflection, retreat, scamp, scintilla, scintillate, scintillation, sheer off, shimmer, shimmering, shrink, shrink back, shy, sidestep, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slant, slight, slubber over, slur, slur over, snowblink, spangle, spark, sparkle, squiz, start, start aside, start back, stroboscopic light, swerve, tinsel, touch upon, touch upon lightly, turn aside, twinkle, twinkling, water sky, waterblink, weasel, weasel out, wince, wink, wink at |