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adjective

Bleak adj.

Without color; pale; pallid. (Obs.) "When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead."

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."

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

noun

Bleak n. (Written also blick) (Zool.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay. Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls.

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"Bleak" Quotes from Famous Books

... far away, the winding track stood still upon the shore, where St. Michael of the Mount rebuked the dragon from his throne of rock above the seething sea. But what was the wanderer's guide along the bleak unpeopled surface of the Cornish moor? The ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... Falernian wine to the haughty victors, who stretched their huge limbs under the shade of plane trees, artificially disposed to exclude the scorching rays and to admit the genial warmth of the sun. These delights were enhanced by the memory of past hardships; the comparison of their native soil, the bleak and barren hills of Scythia, and the frozen banks of the Elbe and Danube added new charms to the ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various

... on their route, struck them as "one of the most appalling objects" which they had seen, being a bleak rock twelve hundred feet high above the level of the lake, with a perpendicular face of its full height. The Indians say, that any one who can scale it, and "turn three times on the brink of its fearful wall, will live for ever." We presume, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 • Various

... of the past years, it seemed to him that they had been very bleak and barren. True, he had done many things; he had influenced many people, and accomplished some good work; but what had he got out of it for himself? He was an Individualist at heart, as most men are, and he felt ...

— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... It was bleak and drear. A raw, angry wind came out of the north and went raging through the woods, tearing the pretty clothing of the trees to pieces and rudely hurling the dust of the street in one's face. The sun got behind the clouds and in grief and dismay hid his face while ...

— The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington

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