Verb

(en verb)

To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

To radiate some emotional quality like light.

* Dryden

With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .

* Alexander Pope

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .

To gaze especially passionately at something.

To radiate thermal heat.

To shine brightly and steadily.

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To make hot; to flush.

* Shakespeare

Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.

To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

* Addison

Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

* John Gay

The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

Verb

To close and reopen both eyes quickly.

The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.

To flash headlights on a car at.

An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them.

To send a signal with a lighting device.

Don't come to the door until I blink twice.

To flash on and off at regular intervals.

The blinking text on the screen was distracting.

(hyperbole) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.

* 1980 , Billy Joel, “Don't Ask Me Why”, Glass Houses , Columbia Records

All the waiters in your grand cafe / Leave their tables when you blink .

To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.

to blink the question

(Scotland) To trick; to deceive.

(Jamieson)

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

* Alexander Pope

One eye was blinking , and one leg was lame.

To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.

* Shakespeare

Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.

To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.

* Wordsworth

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink .

* Sir Walter Scott

The sun blinked fair on pool and stream.

To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.

(label) To teleport, mostly for short distances