wink

  1. Verb.  (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes.
  2. Verb.  (archaic, intransitive) To turn a blind eye.
  3. Verb.  (intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To twinkle.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To send an indication of agreement by winking.
  6. Noun.  An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
  7. Noun.  A brief time; an instant.
  8. Noun.  A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
  9. Noun.  A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

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