Definition of "nictitation" [nic•ti•ta•tion]

• Winking, blinking (noun)

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• "Her eyes were already beginning to glaze over, the double eyelids spasming in repeated nictitation."
• "For it is better to have one starting-point for nictitation than two; and in these birds this starting-point is the junction of eye and nostrils, an anterior starting-point being preferable to a lateral one."
• "As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat."