Nictates vs Dictates - What's the difference?
nictates | dictates |
(nictate)
To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.
*1909 , (Frederick Rolfe), Don Renato , Chatto & Windus 1963:
*:Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated' his dexter eyelid. And I ' nictated mine. And we both laughed.
*1955 , (Vladimir Nabokov), Lolita :
*:Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating .
*2011 , Perry & Wharton, Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival , p. 113:
*:In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.
