Blink

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 51

blink, v. L To wink; to see with eyes half shut; to glimmer, — v. i. To shut out of sight, avoid or evade, conceal. — n. A glimpse or glance. (Naut.) Dazzling whitene about the horizon reflected from fields of ice at sea.