winner (winer)

[ IMG:content-2444.png:[blocks in formation] You are forc'd to wink and seem content. We may surely wink at a few things for the sake of the public interest, if God Almighty does; and if He didn't, I don't know what would have become of the country. George Eliot, Felix Holt, vii. 41. To close the eyes in sleep; sleep. For wel I woot, although I wake or winke, Ye rekke not whether I flete or sinke. Chaucer , Complaint to Pity, 1. 109. Go to bedde bi tyme, & wynke. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 50. IMG:content-2445.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2446.png:[blocks in formation] "Very well, sir," cried the squire, who immediately smoked him, and winked on the rest of the company, to prepare us for the sport. Goldsmith, Vicar, vii. I blush to say I've winked at him, and he has winked at me! W. S. Gilbert, Gentle Alice Brown. 6. To twinkle; shine with quick, irregular gleams; flash; sparkle. Whether the Heav'ns ince ant agitation, Into a Star transforming th' Exhalation, Kindle the same, like as a coal that winkt On a sticks end (and seemed quite extinct). Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 21. And every Lamp, and every Fire, Did at the dreadful Sight wink and expire. within. Also called concu ion - bellows.