(intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
(transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks, and lets his humours reign.
Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
He winked at me.
She winked her eye.
The light winks.
I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
An act of winking (a blinking of only oneeye), or a message sent by winking.
Dutch comedian André van Duin winking, 1969
(transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
Gale Henry winking, 1919
An act of winking (a blinking of only oneeye), or a message sent by winking.