nictitation

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No twinkling, no scintillation, no nictitation, disturbed their pure and lambent gleam.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

This want of transparency of the cornea is visible sometimes in dying people, owing to their inirritability, and consequent neglect of nictitation.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Those trains or tribes of associate motions, whose introductory link consists of an irritative motion, are termed irritative associations; as when the muscles of the eyelids close the eye in common nictitation.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus