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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To wink. See Synonyms at blink.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To wink.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive to wink or blink

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To wink; to nictate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. briefly shut the eyes

Etymologies

  1. Back-formation from nictitating. (Wiktionary)
  2. Medieval Latin nictitāre, nictitāt-, frequentative of Latin nictāre. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

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  1. wink
  1. nictate

hypernyms (2)

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  1. act involuntarily
  1. act reflexively

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  1. palpebrate
  1. flutter
  1. bat

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  1. harderian
  1. haw
  1. nictate
  1. wink
  1. blink

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  1. eyes
  1. obstruct

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  • reesetee Hmm. That would be far easier than actually doing the heavy lifting myself.... Jun 30, 2008

  • yarb Or you could just watch while I work on my quotational mega-project over the next two months. Jun 30, 2008

  • reesetee Oh! Must check out his works, then. :-) Jun 30, 2008

  • yarb Exactly - that's the subject. Birds and ornithology are very common in Reading's poems, especially his later work (e.g. 2002's Faunal). Jun 30, 2008

  • reesetee Like birds. :-) Jun 30, 2008

  • yarb Slowly, nictitating membranes
    squeeze across dull-bloomed sclerotics.

    - Peter Reading, At Home, from Diplopic, 1983 Jun 30, 2008

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