WINK, v.i. [G. Wink and wince are radically one word.] 1. To shut the eyes; to close the eyelids.They are not blind, but they wink.2. To close and open the eyelids.3. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids.Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate.4. To close the eyelids and exclude the light.Or wink as cowards and afraid.5. To be dim; as a winking light.To wink at, to connive at; to seem not to see; to tolerate; to overlook, as something not perfectly agreeable; as, to wink at faults.WINK, n. 1. The act of closing the eyelids. I lay awake, and could not sleep a wink.I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink.2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
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