[f. BLINK sb.]

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  1.  A nickname for one who blinks.

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1616.  Holyday, Persius, 298. And winks At him, whose sight is bad, calling him blinks.

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  2.  Herb. The Water Chickweed, or Blinking Chickweed, Montia fontana.

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1835.  Hooker, Brit. Flora, 59. Water Blinks.

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1863.  Prior, Plant-n., 25. Blinks or blinking-chickweed, from its half-closed little white flowers peering from the axils of the upper leaves, as if afraid of the light.

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