Crossword clues for winking
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
n. The act of one who winks. vb. (present participle of wink English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Winking is a Belgian software company headquartered in Koekelare, West-Vlaanderen that develops software to automate processes, such as the processing of documents. The company was founded by Gerdi Staelens and Jan Vandenbosch in 1989. After the departure of co-founder Vandenbosch in 2001, the CEO position was fully handed over to Gerdi Staelens.
The company operates mainly in the European, Middle East and African (EMEA) region. The company's flagship products are Winkin' (accounting and commercial administration) and Print&Share.
Usage examples of "winking".
But Brast was already gone, into the abyss, the burning match that had been in his hand dancing and flickering on an updraft before winking out.
In one hand, he held a shield that flashed brilliantly in the winking strobes.
It was then that the metronome went into action in a blaze of winking lights.
Sandry had chosen an undergown of pale blue and a white lace overgown, with blue topazes winking at her ears and around her neck.
The black blood, winking in the starlight, seeped down into the clinkers between the ties with a prolonged sucking murmur.
Rudy left him there, walking slowly back along his own invisible tracks, the double points of his pronged staff winking in the desert starlight.
Then, he refrained from winking at her when she gave him a guileful looking smile.
He propped his head up on an elbow, then twitched involuntarily as she stretched herself before him and took his manhood into her mouth, winking broadly at him above it.
He sat in his desk chair and contemplated Torner as she slept, then saw the winking message light reflected red in her diamond and decided it was about time he listened to his mail.
Tom, like his father before him, has a family practice in Orangetown, a quick ten minutes away, but he spends at least a third of his time working on trilobite research, his hobby, his avocation, he would tell you in a kind of winking way so that you understand trilobites are his real work.
In the tall unmowed grass at the edge of the clearing, dozens of fireflies appeared winking like distant galaxmes.
Then they fell to the wet ground, winking like little eyes in the unseasonable sunlight.
An arrow buried itself in the ground between his hands, and suddenly, winking free of darkness, he saw unshrouded sky above and twinkling stars.
In this guise he stood blinking and winking in the glare of light, and pattering out his excuses with as many bows and scrapes as Sir Peter Witling in the play.
Alaire watched as Kai, Heikki and Aini rose, Kai winking at him for effect.