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BLEAK, a.

1. Pale. [But not often used in this sense, in America, as far as my observations extend.]

2. Open; vacant; exposed to a free current of air; as a bleak hill or shore. This is the true sense of the word; hence cold and cheerless. A bleak wind is not so named merely from its coldness, but from its blowing without interruption, on a wide waste;at least this is the sense in America. So in Addison. "Her desolation presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects.'

BLEAK, n. A small river fish, five or six inches long, so named from its whiteness. It belongs to the genus Cyprinus,and is known to the Londoners by the name of white bait. It is called also by contraction blay.




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BLEAK, a.

1. Pale. [But not often used in this sense, in America, as far as my observations extend.]

2. Open; vacant; exposed to a free current of air; as a bleak hill or shore. This is the true sense of the word; hence cold and cheerless. A bleak wind is not so named merely from its coldness, but from its blowing without interruption, on a wide waste;at least this is the sense in America. So in Addison. "Her desolation presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects.'

BLEAK, n. A small river fish, five or six inches long, so named from its whiteness. It belongs to the genus Cyprinus,and is known to the Londoners by the name of white bait. It is called also by contraction blay.


BLEAK, a. [Sax. blac, blæk, black and pale, or wan; niger, pallidus, fuscus, pullus. It appears that originally this word did not denote perfect whiteness, but a wan or brown color. This is from the same root as black and bleach. See Bleach.]

  1. Pale. [But not often used in this sense in America, as far as my observations extend.]
  2. Open; vacant; exposed to a free current of air; as, a bleak hill or shore. This is the true sense of the word; hence cold and cheerless. A bleak wind is not so named merely from its coldness, but from its blowing without interruption, on a wide waste; at least this is the sense in America. So in Addison: “Her desolation presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects.”

BLEAK, n.

A small river fish, five or six inches long, so named from its whiteness. It belongs to the genus Cyprinus, and is known to the Londoners by the name of white bait, It is called also by contraction blay. – Encyc.


Bleak
  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. 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.

  3. 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.

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

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

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Bleak

BLEAK, adjective

1. Pale. [But not often used in this sense, in America, as far as my observations extend.]

2. Open; vacant; exposed to a free current of air; as a bleak hill or shore. This is the true sense of the word; hence cold and cheerless. A bleak wind is not so named merely from its coldness, but from its blowing without interruption, on a wide waste; at least this is the sense in America. So in Addison. 'Her desolation presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects.'

BLEAK, noun A small river fish, five or six inches long, so named from its whiteness. It belongs to the genus Cyprinus, and is known to the Londoners by the name of white bait. It is called also by contraction blay.

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