Dictionary entry

Twinkling

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.

3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump,... the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Cor. xv. 52.