Bleak

1. (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

2. (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

3. (n.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

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