| clink | noun (n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. |
| | noun (n.) A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. |
| | verb (v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous]. |
| link | noun (n.) A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like. |
| | noun (n.) A single ring or division of a chain. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond. |
| | noun (n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained. |
| | noun (n.) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion. |
| | noun (n.) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4. |
| | noun (n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. |
| | noun (n.) Sausages; -- because linked together. |
| | noun (n.) A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; -- usually in pl. |
| | noun (n.) Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played. |
| | verb (v. t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be connected. |
| slink | noun (n.) The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time. |
| | noun (n.) A thievish fellow; a sneak. |
| | adjective (a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. |
| | adjective (a.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts. |
| | adjective (a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf. |
| | adjective (a.) Thin; lean. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf. |
| chink | noun (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. |
| | noun (n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. |
| | noun (n.) Money; cash. |
| | verb (v. i.) To crack; to open. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. |
| drink | noun (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out. |
| | verb (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. |
| | verb (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. |
| | verb (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. |
| | verb (v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco. |
| pink | noun (n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky. |
| | noun (n.) A stab. |
| | adjective (a.) Half-shut; winking. |
| | adjective (a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons. |
| | verb (v. i.) To wink; to blink. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword. |
| | verb (v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out. |
| | verb (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx. |
| | verb (v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower. |
| | verb (v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something. |
| | verb (v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. |
| shrink | noun (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. |
| | verb (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. |
| | verb (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. |
| | verb (v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw. |
| sink | noun (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. |
| | noun (n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. |
| | noun (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole. |
| | noun (n.) The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. |
| | verb (v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. |
| | verb (v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. |
| | verb (v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. |
| | verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. |
| | verb (v. t.) To conseal and appropriate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. |
| | verb (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt. |
| think | noun (n.) Act of thinking; a thought. |
| | verb (v. t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought. |
| | verb (v. t.) To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. |
| | verb (v. t.) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. |
| | verb (v. t.) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. |
| | verb (v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. |
| | verb (v. t.) To presume; to venture. |
| | verb (v. t.) To conceive; to imagine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass. |
| | verb (v. t.) To believe; to consider; to esteem. |
| wink | noun (n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment. |
| | noun (n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. |
| | verb (v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap. |
| | verb (v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion. |
| | verb (v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. |
| | verb (v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink. |
