From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Twinkling \Twin"kling\, n.
1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick
movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. --Holland.
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2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a
sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.
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3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
--1 Cor. xv.
52.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Twinkle \Twin"kle\ (tw[i^][ng]"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Twinkled} (tw[i^][ng]"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Twinkling}
(tw[i^][ng]"kl[i^]ng).] [OE. twinklen, AS. twinclian; akin to
OE. twinken to blink, wink, G. zwinken, zwinkern, and perhaps
to E. twitch.]
1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
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The owl fell a moping and twinkling. --L' Estrange.
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2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light;
to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
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These stars do not twinkle when viewed through
telescopes that have large apertures. --Sir I.
Newton.
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The western sky twinkled with stars. --Sir W.
Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
twinkling
adj 1: shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling
stars"
n 1: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or
the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a
flash" [syn: {blink of an eye}, {flash}, {heartbeat},
{instant}, {jiffy}, {split second}, {trice}, {twinkling},
{wink}, {New York minute}]
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