Crossword clues for winked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wink \Wink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Winked; p. pr. & vb. n. Winking.] [OE. winken, AS. wincian; akin to D. wenken, G. winken to wink, nod, beckon, OHG. winchan, Sw. vinka, Dan. vinke, AS. wancol wavering, OHG. wanchal wavering, wanch?n to waver, G. wanken, and perhaps to E. weak; cf. AS. wincel a corner. Cf. Wench, Wince, v. i.]
To nod; to sleep; to nap. [Obs.] ``Although I wake or wink.''
--Chaucer.-
To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
He must wink, so loud he would cry.
--Chaucer.And I will wink, so shall the day seem night.
--Shak.They are not blind, but they wink.
--Tillotson. -
To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day.
--Hawthorne. -
To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate.
--Swift. -
To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
The times of this ignorance God winked at.
--Acts xvii. 30.And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign.
--Herbert.Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
--Locke. -
To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
Winking monkey (Zo["o]l.), the white-nosed monkey ( Cersopithecus nictitans).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: wink)
Usage examples of "winked".
LL LLJ Alec and Micum were halfway to the Oreska House when a tiny message sphere winked into being in front of them.
He set his black bag on the floor inside, winked solemnly at the patient.
The sky went orange and gray, and at last the ten thousand suns of Cluster Regenesis winked out to gleam like the eyes of dorquebirds, squatting in their nests of planets.
He refused to be winked out in the twinkling of an eye, after being so flushed with his own grandeur.
She wrinkled her nose, winked, and knocked over the gin bottle with a small and deliberate push.
But out of view of Robert he winked, pointing at himself and then at me, and the message I got was that he would find a way to come to me.
Martha heard the swallowing and grinned knowingly at me and winked, and then I squirted more, a powerful effusion of hot new cream, and Ronnie sighed pleasurably through her nose and gulped, and after several squirts I slumped, gasping and huffing, gritting my teeth while Ronnie finished me off.
She winked one more time and went into her apartment, her lips forming a noisy smooch as she closed the door.
The hilt was set with sapphires and emeralds that winked a bright blue and green in the candlelight.
And those damned stones in his necklace winked in the light, adding to her discomfort.
As the last lights in the distant town winked out, Seregil paused on a rise overlooking a prosperous steading.
Nysander was just reaching for his goblet again when a yellow globe of light winked into being in front of him.
Sarah thought in amazement, and in mockery and astonishment at herself her eye winked once.
But it might have been, Sarah thought frantically, and her eye winked once.
Yes, winked her eye, and she waited, breath held, for him to press on.