dial. [f. WINK v.1 + -LE 3.] intr. To emit light intermittently; to twinkle.

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1791.  J. Learmont, Poems, 37. In vain the starry winkling gleam.

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1807.  Hogg, Mountain Bard, 63.

        What though she has twa little winkling een?
  They’re better than nane.

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1905.  Mabel Barnes-Grundy, Vacill. Hazel, 198. Fixed stars and planets—and they twinkled and winkled, and sparkled and glittered till the heavens seemed fairly alive with their glimmering eyes.

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