Part 1197

<h1>Blindstory</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blind"sto`ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.</def>

<h1>Blindworm</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blind"worm`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (<spn>Anguis fragilis</spn>), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.</def>

<blockquote>Newts and <b>blindworms</b> do no wrong. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blink</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blink</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blinked</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blinking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>blenken</ets>; akin to dan. <ets>blinke</ets>, Sw. <ets>blinka</ets>, G. <ets>blinken</ets> to shine, glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. <ets>blikken</ets> to glance, twinkle, G. <ets>blicken</ets> to look, glance, AS. bl\'c6<ets>can</ets> to shine, E. <ets>bleak</ets>. &root;98. See <er>Bleak</er>; cf. 1st <er>Blench</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.</def>

<blockquote>One eye was <b>blinking</b>, and one leg was lame. <i>Pope</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.</def>

<blockquote>Show me thy chink, to <b>blink</b> through with mine eyne. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.</def>

<blockquote>The dew was falling fast, the stars began to <b>blink</b>. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The sun <b>blinked</b> fair on pool and stream . <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.</def>

<h1>Blink</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blink</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; <as>as, to blink the question</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To trick; to deceive.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Jamieson.</i>

<h1>Blink</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blink</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>blink</ets>. See <er>Blink</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt> ]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A glimpse or glance.</def>

<blockquote>This is the first <b>blink</b> that ever I had of him. <i>Bp. Hall.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<blockquote>Not a <b>blink</b> of light was there. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <tt>pl.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Blencher</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Sporting)</fld> <def>Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Blinkard</h1> <Xpage=155>