Meaning of nictate | Babel Free

Definitions

To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.

intransitive

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Examples

“Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated his dexter eyelid. And I nictated mine. And we both laughed.”

“Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating.”

“In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.”

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