Twinkle \Twin"kle\ (tw[i^][ng]"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Twinkled (tw[i^][ng]"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Twinkling
(tw[i^][ng]"kl[i^]ng).] [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.
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The owl fell a moping and twinkling. --L' Estrange.
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2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light;
to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
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These stars do not twinkle when viewed through
telescopes that have large apertures. --Sir I.
Newton.
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The western sky twinkled with stars. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Twinkling \Twin"kling\, n.
1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick
movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. --Holland.
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2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a
sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.
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3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
--1 Cor. xv.
52.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
twinkling
adj : shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling
stars" [syn: twinkling(a)]
n : a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the
heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a
flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant,
jiffy, split second, trice, wink, New York
minute]
WordNet (r) 2.0
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "twinkling":
blink, blinking, blinky, breath, coruscant, coruscating,
coruscation, coup, crack, firefly, flash, glimmer, glimmering,
glimmerous, glimmery, glisten, glistening, glister, glistering,
glitter, glittering, glittery, glowworm, half a jiffy, half a mo,
half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, jiffy, microsecond,
millisecond, minute, moment, scintilla, scintillant, scintillating,
scintillation, scintillescent, sec, second, shake, shimmer,
shimmering, shimmery, spangle, spangly, spark, sparkle, sparkling,
split second, stroboscopic light, stroke, tick, tinsel, tinselly,
trice, twink, twinkle, twinkly, twitch, two shakes, wink
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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