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den in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

e whales, having no true teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed. (b) The Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale, which have teeth. Another…

s held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book. I shall prove these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original. Grew.

A convent or monastery. [Obs.] Bale. Covent Garden, a large square in London, so called because originally it was the garden of a monastery.

One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.

Tormented. [Obs.] Bale.

A knife. [Obs.] Bale.

To cut short; to curtail. [Obs.] Bale.

To deprive of reason; to make mad. [R.] Bale.

was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale.

An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent. [Obs.] Disasters in the sun. Shak.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.

To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [Obs. or Archaic] Bale.

Published. [Obs.] Bale.

Worthless; draffy. Bale.

ious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime. That detestable profession of a life so enormous. Bale.

Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] Bale.

Gaudy. "Gaudish ceremonies." Bale.

Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale.