TWINKLE

twinkle. Twinkle, v.i. toopen and shut the eye, to sparkle

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Twin″kle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Twinkled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Twinkling (?).] [[OE. twinklen, AS. twinclian; akin to OE. twinken to blink, wink, G. zwinken, zwinkern, and perhaps to E. twitch.]] 1. 1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. 2. 2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
These stars not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott.