Bleak
a.
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Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
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Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Wastes too bleak to rear
The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach.
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Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
Bleak
n.
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A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. (Zool.)