Nictate

Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated his dexter eyelid. And I nictated mine. And we both laughed.

Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating.

In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.