noun

1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.

2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.

3. A brief time; an instant.

verb

1. To close one's eyes in sleep.

2. To close one's eyes.

3. Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.

Synonyms: connive, shut one's eyes, nictitate