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KJV Dictionary Definition: wink

wink

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.

winking

WINKING, ppr. Shutting the eyes; shutting and opening the eyelids; hinting by closing the eye; conniving at; overlooking.

winkingly

WINKINGLY, adv. With the eye almost closed.