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.

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

To play irregularly; as, her eyes will twinkle.

A sparkling; a shining with intermitted light; as the twinkling of the stars.

A motion of the eye.

Amoment; 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. 7 Corinthians 15:52.