Nictitate

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  • intransitive verb. To wink.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To wink.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To wink; to nictate.
  • intransitive verb. a thin membrane, found in many animals at the inner angle, or beneath the lower lid, of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball; the third eyelid; the haw.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to wink or blink
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. briefly shut the eyes
  • cross-reference
    Hypernym
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    Hyponym
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    bat  flutter  palpebrate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nictate  wink  
    verb-form