blinks
(blɪŋks)
[f. blink n.]
1. A nickname for one who blinks.
| 1616 B. Holyday Persius 298 And winks At him, whose sight is bad, calling him blinks. |
2. Herb. The Water Chickweed, or Blinking Chickweed, Montia fontana.
| 1835 Hooker Brit. Flora 59 Water Blinks. 1863 Prior Plant-n. 25 Blinks or blinking-chickweed, from its half-closed little white flowers peering from the axils of the upper leaves, as if afraid of the light. |