wink

WINK, verb intransitive [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, noun 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