v. t. To repent; to displease; to disgust. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besprinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling ] To sprinkle over; to scatter over. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, besprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bethought p. pr. & vb. n. Bethinking. ] [ AS. beþencan; pref. be- + þencan to think. See Think. ] To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We bethink a means to break it off. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To recollect; remember; reflect. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To think; to recollect; to consider. “Bethink ere thou dismiss us.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bench. [ North of Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blinked p. pr. & vb. n. Blinking. ] [ OE. blenken; akin to dan. blinke, Sw. blinka, G. blinken to shine, glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS. blīcan to shine, E. bleak. √98. See Bleak; cf. 1st Blench. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To trick; to deceive. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. blink. See Blink, v. i. ] 1. A glimpse or glance. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the first blink that ever I had of him. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not a blink of light was there. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. [ Cf. Blencher. ] (Sporting) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blind + -ard. ] 1. One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

def>Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, blinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor bigots who but one way see,
through blinkers of authority. M. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Habitually winking. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a typ of small Indian lettuce (Montia lamprosperma) of northern regions.
Syn. -- blinking chickweed, water chickweed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. [ 1913 Webster ]

The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dan. brink edge, verge; akin to Sw. brink declivity, hill, Icel. brekka; cf. LG. brink a grassy hill, W. bryn hill, bryncyn hillock. ] The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. “The brink of vice.” Bp. Porteus. “The brink of ruin.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ brink + -manship. (1956). ] the policy or practise of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety), in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome; -- used especially of diplomatic maneuvers in crisis situations, and originally applied to the policies of John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A drinking between meals. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See Pinkboot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) the common rufous-sided towhee of eastern North America, Pipilo erythrophthalmus.
Syn. -- chewink, rufous-sided towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also rufous-sided towhee, towhee, towhee bunting and ground robin. [ Also spelled cheewink. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. chine, AS. cīne fissure, chink, fr. cīnan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit. ] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From chinaman. ] a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Chinked p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking. ] To crack; to open. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle. ] 1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. “Chink of bell.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Money; cash. [ Cant ] “To leave his chink to better hands.” Somerville. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. able to think clearly and accurately. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clinked p. pr. & vb. n. Clinking. ] [ OE. clinken; akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. Clank, Clench, Click, v. i. ] To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. [ 1913 Webster ]

And let me the canakin clink. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. “The clinking latch.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rhyme. [ Humorous ]. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. “Clink and fall of swords.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. [ Colloq. ] “I'm here in the clink.” Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. See Clinquant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone. ] 1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Clink + stone; -- from its sonorousness. ] (Min.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Countersunk p. pr. & vb. n. Countersinking. ] 1. To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States a flaring cavity formed by chamfering the edges of a round hole is called a countersink, while a cylindrical flat-bottomed enlargement of the mouth of the hole is usually called a conterbore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling ] [ A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe. ] To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. [ 1913 Webster ]

The house&unr_;s crinkled to and fro. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her face all bowsy,
Comely crinkled,
Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flames through all the casements pushing forth,
Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. [ 1913 Webster ]

The green wheat crinkles like a lake. L. T. Trowbridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all the rooms
Were full of crinkling silks. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. “The crinkled lightning.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a North American herb (Dentaria diphylla) with pungent scaly or toothed roots; -- called also toothwort.
Syn. -- pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem., Biochem.) a covalent bond that links two chains of atoms, or two sections of one chain, in a polymeric molecule; the cross-link is created by a third bond in a monomer unit in addition to the two bonds forming the polymeric chain; -- a cross-link may be internal to a single chain, rather than between two otherwise unlinked chains; as, ultraviolet irradiation creates cross-links between the two chains of a DNA double helix; many enzymes have cross-links formed by disulfide bonds; polystyrene resins have their porosity controlled by the proportion of cross-links. Called also cross-linkage.
Syn. -- cross-linkage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. cross-linked p. pr. & vb. n. cross-linking. ] (Chem., Biochem.) to create cross links in; -- of polymeric molecules. [ PJC ]

n. same as cross-link, n. [ WordNet 1.5 ]