Usually means: Blink or wink an eyelid.
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  1. nictate: Merriam-Webster
  2. nictate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nictate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nictate: Vocabulary.com
  5. nictate: Wordnik
  6. nictate: Wiktionary
  7. nictate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nictate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Nictate, nictate: Dictionary.com
  10. Nictate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. nictate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. nictate: Rhymezone
  13. Nictate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. nictate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. nictate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nictate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. nictate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Nictate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nictate)

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

Similar:
wink, nictitate, blink, connive, bat one's eyes, twire, blinker, nuzzle, bat one's eyelashes, blicker, more...

Opposite:
blink, close, shut

Types:
wink, blink, flicker, more...

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Similar:
wink, nictitate, blink, connive, bat one's eyes, twire, blinker, nuzzle, bat one's eyelashes, blicker, more...

Opposite:
blink, close, shut

Types:
wink, blink, flicker, more...



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