(v): show, express or direct through movement
(v): gleam or glow intermittently
(v): cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays
(v): briefly shut the eyes
(v): act in an uncontrolled manner
(v): force to go away by blinking
(v): to put down by force or authority
(n): a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
(n): an indefinitely short time
(n): closing one eye quickly as a signal
(n): a gesture executed with the facial muscles
(n): a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
(n): an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
-- I plunged a bit, said Boylan winking and drinking.
Joyce, Ulysses, 11