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Twink [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

TWINK . [ See Twinkle .]

Twink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Twink [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Twinkle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To sparkle; to flash at intervals; to shine with a tremulous intermitted light, or with a broken quivering light. The fixed stars twinkle; the planets do not.

2. These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.

3. To open and shut the eye by turns; as the twinkling owl.

4. To play irregularly; as, her eyes will twinkle

5. TWIN'KLE

Twinkle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.

2. A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.

3. The time of a wink; a twinkling.

Twinkle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.

2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.

Twinkled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Twinkler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

Twinkling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sparkling; a shining with intermitted light; as the twinkling of the stars.

2. A motion of the eye.

3. A moment; an instant; the time of a wink.

4. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump--the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Corinthians 15:52 .

Twinkling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Twinkling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.

2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.

3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.

Twinkling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913