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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Twinkling

/twĭng'-kəl-ĭng/ · Twin·kling · IPA /ˈtwɪŋklɪŋ/
01 n. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.
  1. 1.
    The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.
  2. 2.
    A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.
  3. 3.
    The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
    “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible.” — 1 Cor. xv. 52.