Noah Webster
Blink
BLINK, verb intransitive
1. To wink; to twinkle with the eye.
2. To see obscurely. Johnson. Is it not to see with the eyes half shut, or with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes?
One eye was blinking and one leg was lame.
BLINK, noun A glimpse or glance.
BLINK, noun blink of ice, is the dazzling whiteness about the horizon, occasioned by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea.