v. i. [ OE. twinken. See Twinkle. ] To twinkle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A wink; a twinkling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The chaffinch. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. [ 1913 Webster ]

These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suddenly, with twinkle of her eye,
The damsel broke his misintended dart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The time of a wink; a twinkling. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Cor. xv. 52. [ 1913 Webster ]