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▪ I. winking, vbl. n.1|ˈwɪŋkɪŋ|
[f. wink v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of wink v.1
†1. Closing the eyes in sleep; dozing, slumbering; also, a doze, a nap. Obs.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 145 Þer scal beon..lokinge wið-uten winkunge, song wið-uten lisse. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 3 Þanne waked I of my wynkynge and wo was with-alle, Þat I ne hadde sleped sadder. 1393Ibid. C. xii. 167 In a wynkynge ich worth and wonderliche ich mette.
attrib.1625Fletcher & Shirley Nt.-Walker iv. i, So, so, he's fast; Fast as a fish ith' net, he has winking powder Shall worke upon him to our wish.
b. The taking of ‘forty winks’.
1862Smiles Engineers III. xii. 239 Stephenson..would occasionally refresh himself..by a short doze, which..he would never admit had exceeded the limits of ‘winking’, to use his own term.
2. The shutting of the eyes, as in blinking, as a gesture of aversion or connivance, and now esp. as a flippant indication of intimate knowledge or amused interest. † Also, a significant glance or movement of the eyes; with at, connivance.
c1440Promp. Parv. 530/1 Wynkkynge, of the eye (S. with the eye), nictitacio,..nictus,..conquinicio,..connivencia. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 282 Glowtynge ne twynkelynge with your yȝe..Watery wynkynge ne droppynge but of sight clere. 1538Elyot Dict., Nictus, a wynkynge, as whan one doth sygnifie his mynde to an other by loking. 1564–78W. Bullein Dial. agst. Pest. (1888) 20 What meaneth hee by winkyng like a Goose in the raine? 1572Instructions Earl Worc. in Digges Compl. Ambass. (1655) 318 To suffer no permission or winking at of any other Religion then that which..our Realm hath always held. 1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 211 On the winking of Authoritie To vnderstand a Law. 1602― Ham. ii. ii. 137 If I had..giuen my heart a winking, mute and dumbe. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 152 Breaches of charity..by the wincking and scorning of our eyes. 1664Tillotson Wisdom of being religious 33 If there be a God, a man cannot by an obstinate dis-belief of him make him cease to be, any more then a man can put out the Sun by winking. 1684Howe Redeemer's Tears Wks. 1724 II. 15 Men may indeed, by resolved, stiff, winking, create to themselves a darkness amidst the clearest Light. 1693Locke Educ. §138 If..any one..should..make them think there is any difference between being in the dark and winking, you must get it out of their Minds. 1783O'Keeffe Birth-Day 28 Sly winking and blinking, As leering and jeering. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline I. 206 What..is all this winking and smirking about? 1831Scott Ct. Rob. xiv, It is the misfortune of the weaker on such occasions..to be obliged to take the petty part of winking hard, as if not able to see what they cannot avenge. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxviii, The fat boy swallowed a glass of liquor without so much as winking.
3. The rapid alternating motion of an object; the intermittent flashing of light.
1859J. Brown Rab & F. 16 The mobility..of that bud [of a tail],..its expressive twinklings and winkings..were of the oddest and swiftest. [1899F. T. Bullen Way Navy 28 The flagship keeps breaking out into rapid winkings of lofty electric eyes.] 1908C. W. Wallace Children Chapel Blackfriars 11 The modern signal bell of the German theatre..when an act is ready to begin;—a signal reduced in American theatres to the winking of the lights.
4. like winking: in a flash, in a twinkling, very rapidly or suddenly; also, with vigour or persistency, ‘like one o'clock’, ‘like anything’. So, as easy as winking.
1827Hood Sailor's Apol. 71 Both my legs began to bend like winkin. 1841Marryat Poacher xxii, He's a regular scholar, and can sum up like winkin. 1872‘Aliph Cheem’ (Yeldham) Lays of Ind (1876) 85 But [we] cry ‘pray grow your opium!’ Because it pays like winking. 1907H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights xxxv, She'll..make a hundred and fifty a week as easy as winking.
▪ II. † ˈwinking, vbl. n.2
[See wink v.2]
Wincing.
1677W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. i. 7 What a Desperate Cause is this;..Is not this meer winking to avoid a blow?
▪ III. winking, ppl. a.|ˈwɪŋkɪŋ|
[f. wink v.1 + -ing2.]
That winks.
1. That shuts the eyes or one eye intermittently or for an instant; blinking; † slumbering, sleepy; in OE. as n. = the blind.
Used to render the specific name connivens of certain birds.
a1000Sal. & Sat. 77 Lamena he is læce, leoht wincendra [v.r. winciendra]. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 4 Þo wepte I for wo and wratth of her speche, And in a wynkyng wratth wex I aslepe. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 162 Smalle holes keepe small mise, from wily winkyng cats. 1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iv. 89 Her Andirons..were two winking Cupids Of Siluer. 1630Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. xxi. 53 Wee are wont to salute it [sc. the light] at the first comming in, with winking, or closed eyes. 1693Dryden Ovid's Met. i. 990 The Keeper's winking Eyes began to fail. 1784Cowper Task ii. 773 Blame we most the nurslings or the nurse? The children,..deform'd, Through want of care; or her, whose winking eye And slumb'ring oscitancy mars the brood? 1801Latham Synopsis, Suppl. II. 53 Winking Falcon [Falco connivens]. It has a wonderful faculty of contracting and dilating the iris. 1810Crabbe Borough x. 243 And prosing topers rub their winking eyes. 1855Poultry Chron. III. 381 The nictitating (winking) muscles. 1860Patmore Faithful For Ever ii. ii. 109 And I, contented,..idly stroke The winking cat, or watch the fire. 1870Disraeli Lothair liv, Starveling saints and winking madonnas.
†b. Characterized by shutting of the eyes or averted looks; conniving. Obs.
1577–82Breton Floorish upon Fancie Wks. (Grosart) I. 37/1 Some finely vse a winking kinde of wile, Some looke alofte, and some doo still looke downe. 1579Hake Newes out of Powles (1872) F viij b, See, see, what wyly winking shiftes, by cliffe browde beasts are made. 1605–6Earl of Northampton in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 55 The winking course which I am forced to take daily in the ports..hath..tired me with struggling between both parts.
2. transf. That opens and shuts; often, by extension, applied to intermittent light, the flashing of lamps, the twinkling of a reflexion, or the like.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 215 All preparation for a bloody siedge, And merciles proceeding,..Confronts your Citties eies, your winking gates. 1611― Cymb. ii. iii. 25 (Song) And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their Golden eyes. 1681Dryden Span. Friar iii. ii, A dim winking Lamp. 1789Wolcot (P. Pindar) Subj. for Painters Wks. 1812 II. 142 A winking Light of paltry Rush. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxviii, These [houses] had very little winking windows, and low-arched doors. 1904R. Hichens Garden Allah xx, The first glass of blithely winking champagne.
3. Comb., as † winking-eyed a., blind (fig.).
1621Eng. Prot. Plea for Eng. Preists & Papists 60 The councell could not be so winking eyed, but they would haue found foorth some one or other culpable.
Hence ˈwinkingly adv., with winking eyes; † with a casual look; with a wink or winks.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. I 3 b, Whose pleasing face he had scarce winkingly glanst on [etc.]. 1612Peacham Gentl. Exerc. iii. (1634) 138 If any one beholdeth..some very white object, he vieweth it winkingly. 1868N. Brit. Rev. Dec. 429 The left eye of Raff..asks winkingly, ‘What do you bring to-day?’ 1897Blackmore Dariel xlix. 437 Looking out winkingly in all directions,..I beheld a company of little rocks. |