Bleak

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Without color; pale; pallid.

II. Bleak ·adj Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

III. Bleak ·adj Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

IV. Bleak ·adj A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

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