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twinkling |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Twinkling \Twin"kling\, n. 1. The act of one who or of that which twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. --Holland. 2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as the twinkling of the stars. 3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. --1 Cor. xv 52. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Twinkle \Twin"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Twinkled}; p. pr & vb n. {Twinkling}.] [OE. twinklen, AS twinclian akin to OE twinken to blink, wink, G. zwinken zwinkern and perhaps to E. twitch.] 1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. --L' Estrange. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: twinkling adj : shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling stars" [syn: {twinkling(a)}] n : a very short time; "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: {blink of an eye}, {flash}, {instant}, {jiffy}, {split second}, {trice}, {wink}, {New York minute}]
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