summer-blink

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• Blink

  ·vi A glimpse or glance. II. Blink ·vi Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. III. Blink ·vi To turn slightly so...

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• Summer

  ·v One who sums; one who casts up an <<Account>>. II. Summer ·vi To pass the summer; to spend the w...

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• to blink

  To shut the eyes, to wink. Hence, to shun, to avoid, shy at, as some animals avoid an alarming objec...

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• Blink beer

  ·- Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. ...

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• Blink-eyed

  ·adj Habitually winking. ...

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• Summer-fallow

  ·vt To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fal...

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• summer-bird

  n. the Old Colonists' name for the Wood-swallows. See Swallow. In Tasmania it isapplied to a specie...

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• summer country

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• indian summer

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• summer-goos

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• ice-blink

  A streak or stratum of lucid whiteness which appears over the ice in that part of the atmosphere adj...

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• land-blink

  On Arctic voyages, a peculiar atmospheric brightness on approaching land covered with snow; usually ...

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• moon-blink

  A temporary evening blindness occasioned by sleeping in the moonshine in tropical climates; it is te...

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• summer couts

  A northern name for the aurora borealis. ...

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• summer solstice

  See cancer. ...

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• blink of the ice

  A bright appearance or looming (the iceberg reflected in the atmosphere above it), often assuming an...

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