north. Obs. [f. BLENK v.; now, like the vb., represented by BLINK.]
1. A sudden gleam of light.
c. 1340. Cursor M., 19648 (Fairf.). Noȝt a blenke muȝt he se.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. ix. 113. The bricht mettell … Quharon the son blenkis betis clere.
2. A glance of the eye; usually, a bright, cheerful glance.
c. 1440. York Myst., xxviii. 259. I will no more be abasshed for blenke of thy blee.
c. 1450. Wisd. Sol., in Ratis Rav., 21. Na wys men suld behald the bewte of women that thai be nocht tan with thar suet blenkis.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 31. The ȝoung virgeins with blenkis amorus.
