4. 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. 5. 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. 6. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
Winking monkey (Zoöl.), the white- nosed monkey
Wink
(Wink), v. t. To cause (the eyes) to wink.[Colloq.]
Wink
(Wink), n.
1. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an
act; a moment.
I have not slept one wink.
Shak.
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink.
Donne. 2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. Sir. P. Sidney.
The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down,
And tips you, the freeman, a wink.
Swift. Winker
(Wink"er) n.
1. One who winks. Pope.
2. A horse's blinder; a blinker.
Winkingly
(Wink"ing*ly), adv. In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed. Peacham.
Winkle
(Win"kle) n. [AS. wincle.] (Zoöl.) (a) Any periwinkle. Holland. (b) Any one of various marine
spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar
These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters by drilling their shells and sucking
their blood.
Sting winkle, a European spinose marine shell See Illust. of Murex.
Winkle-hawk
(Win"kle-hawk`) n. [D. winkel-haak a carpenter's square.] A rectangular rent made in
cloth; — called also winkle-hole. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.
Winnard 2
(Win"nard 2), n. The redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
Winnebagoes
(Win`ne*ba"goes) n.; sing. Winnebago (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who
originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and
nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.
