Verb

(head)

(wince)

Verb

(winc)

To flinch as if in pain or distress.

* (William Shakespeare)

I will not stir, nor wince , nor speak a word.

* , chapter=17

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.}}

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, title=The Norwich Victims, chapter=7/2 citation , passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}

To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.

To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.

Verb

(head)

(wink)

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To close one's eyes.

* Shakespeare

I will wink , so shall the day seem night.

* Tillotson

They are not blind, but they wink .

(archaic) To turn a blind eye.

*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:

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.

* Herbert

And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks , and lets his humours reign.

* John Locke

Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.

(intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.

He winked at me.

She winked her eye.

To twinkle.

To be dim and flicker.

The light winks .

To send an indication of agreement by winking.