Dictionary entry

Wink (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wink, n. 1. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.

I have not slept one wink. Shak.

I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink. Donne.

2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. Sir. P. Sidney.

The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down,

And tips you, the freeman, a wink. Swift.