LekhoriLekhoriTo close one's eyes in sleep.
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
To close one's eyes.
Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again, And I will wink; so shall the day seem night […]
Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).
From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *wen...
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Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”).
“I buy my winks,” said one, “at Billingsgate, at 3s. and 4s. the wash. A wash is about a bushel. […]”