wink (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. nictātio2. nictus, ūs • wink (subs.): 1. nictātio: crocodiles have no w. (no power of w.ing) on account of their hard eyes, crocodili sine ulla nictatione propter praeduros oculos, Plin. 11, 37, 57. 2. nictus, ūs: you give a sign by a w., nictu signa remittis, Ov. M. 3, 460 (here, as in the other passages of poets where the word occurs, some would read "nutu").