Associations to the word «Nictate»

Wiktionary

NICTATE, verb. To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane. [from 18th c.]

Dictionary definition

NICTATE, verb. Briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope