wink1 (wingk)

[ IMG:content-2443.png:[blocks in formation] A skilfull Gunner, with his left eye winking , Levels directly at an Oak hard by, Whereon a hundred groaning Culuers cry. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 7. 3. To be wilfully blind or ignorant; avoid notice or recognition, as of an annoying or troublesome fact; ignore; connive: often followed by at . If golde speake for her in the present tense, The officer deputed for th' offence Will winck at smale faultes & remit correction. winkle. See periwinkle2, and first quotation under wash, n., 13. [Prov. Eng.] The wink men, as these periwinkle sellers are called, generally live in the lowest parts, and many in lodging houses. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 78. wink-a-peep (wingk'a-pēp), n. [As wink -and peep.] The scarlet pimpernel, or shepherd's weather-gla , A nag all is arvensis: so named from its closing or winking in damp weather and opening or peeping in fair weather. By Bacon called wincopipe (which see). Britten and Holland. [Prov. Eng.] ble of being won. All the rest are winnable . Pall Mall Gazette , Feb. 18, 1888. ( Encyc . Dict.)