Crossword clues for blinked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blink \Blink\ (bl[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blinked (bl[i^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Blinking.] [OE. blenken; akin to dan. blinke, Sw. blinka, G. blinken to shine, glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS. bl[=i]can to shine, E. bleak. [root]98. See Bleak; cf. 1st Blench.]
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To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.
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To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
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To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
--Wordsworth.The sun blinked fair on pool and stream .
--Sir W. Scott. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: blink)
Usage examples of "blinked".
But when he looked through his outer eyes and saw, only light-years away, a likely sun, he blinked to it, saw its family, orbited the likely planets and went through his routine.
When he blinked it blinked, emerging into normal space as he emerged, waiting as he explored still another world, always within easy range of his eyes, his senses, but undetected.
The first time the ship blinked out, rested, blinked back, there was jubilation at the blink base on the dark side.
For the second time in the history of man, a ship had been blinked and had not gone off into that unexplained nothing, which had eaten the previous ten blink vehicles.
It was there, whole, looking as though it had never blinked out of time and space to travel 2,000 kilometers out and 2,000 kilometers back.
In detecting a distant object, his system blinked waves, sending them not through space but into something else, in and out, in and out, on timed adjustable intervals, longer blinks to detect large objects, shorter and shorter as the search narrowed down.
He blinked in the direction of the beam and then repeated the process, the short blinks made necessary by the crowdings of the stars.
Instantly, Plank blinked the scout out into the space between the planet and its sun where the dark ship with Hara and Heath waited.
He blinked back toward the area of the accelerator, began to take aim once more on the installation and again found himself in a different area before the weapons could be discharged.
He punched in the coordinates and blinked and fired and felt the shiftings and he was seated in a luxurious chair in a comfortable room.
The small ship would be blinked directly into the mass of the Eater, the effect of that, in itself, destructive.
Yet he was at ease while Anguls chewed a fingernail and looked at him askance and the female blinked at him through force-grown lashes of half an inch length.
Zigzagging to avoid large stars which could disrupt a blink generator and send a ship and its contents into limbo for eternity, the ship blinked and rested, bunked and rested, traveling the Orion Arm in seven-league boots, covering distances which strained the imagination in an instant, held back only by the need to rest, to recharge, to build for the next jump.
As each Texas ship was emptied of frozen meat, it locked with a second Empire freighter to take on ingots of pure metals, then blinked, alone, into the emptiness.
At the appointed second she blinked and came out on the nose with the Cassie Vandy sitting within point-blank range getting ready to put up her screens for the duel.