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Bleak

Bleak (bleak)
a.((?))
Bleak
[OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS. bl1913 webster dictionaryc, bl(?)c, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. bl(?)k, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich
  1. Without color; pale; pallid.
    [Obs.]

    When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
    Foxe.

  2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

    Wastes too bleak to rear
    The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
    Wordsworth.

    At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach.
    Longfellow.

  3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

    -- Bleak"ish, a. -- Bleak"ly, adv. -- Bleak"ness, n.

Bleak

Bleak (bleak)
n.
Bleak
  1. A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ the blay.
    [Written also blick.]

    * The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. Baird.













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