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Definition of Eyewink
1. n. A wink; a token.
Definition of Eyewink
1. Noun. (poetic) An instant, a short moment. ¹
2. Noun. The winking of an eye. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eyewink
1. a wink of the eye [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyewink
Literary usage of Eyewink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"... As though they caught a broken clue: So hard was earth an eyewink back; But
now the common life has come, The blotting cloud a dappled pack, ..."
2. Text-book of Histology by Philipp Stöhr (1913)
"Finding his eyelids dropping together in spite of himself, and fantastic visions
chasing through his brain between one eyewink and another, he climbed high ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"shake (slang), handclap, eyewink, blink, wink (more common equivalent of "eye-
wink"), twinkling. Antonyms: see ETERNITY, AGE. 2. ..."
4. The Normal Child and Primary Education by Beatrice Chandler Gesell, Arnold Gesell (1912)
"These neurons carry the outward or efferent impulses, which result in many
responses, from the reflex eyewink, or watering of the mouth, to the pitching of ..."
5. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1822)
"... the space of an eyewink. Could it be that the imaged lips were indued with
the power of evoking like phantoms? — For lo! they move — and the eyes ..."
6. A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English language by John Walker (1797)
"The firing of the eye. EYETOOTH, !'too//>. f. The tooth on the upper jaw next to
the grinders, the fang. eyewink ..."
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