KJV Dictionary Definition: twinkle

twinkle

TWIN'KLE, v.i.

1. To sparkle; to flash at intervals; to shine with a tremulous intermitted light, or with a broken quivering light. The fixed stars twinkle; the planets do not.

These stars do not twinkle, when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.

2. To open and shut the eye by turns; as the twinkling owl.

3. To play irregularly; as, her eyes will twinkle.

TWIN'KLE

twinkling

TWIN'KLING, n. A sparkling; a shining with intermitted light; as the twinkling of the stars.

1. A motion of the eye.

2. A moment; an instant; the time of a wink.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump--the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Cor.15.

TWIN'KLING, ppr. Sparkling.