- (a.) Without color; pale; pallid.
- (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
- (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
- (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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