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A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack. Totten.

An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

halt; as, hold up your horses. -- To hold water. (a) Literally, to retain water without leaking; hence (Fig.), to be whole, sound, consistent, without gaps or holes; -- commonly used in a negative sense; as, his statements will not hold water. [Collog.] (b) (Naut.) To hold the oars steady in the water, thus checking…

he high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.

Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. "Inhospitable wastes." Blair. -- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*mess, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.

ed; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.

om which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.

ne's mind, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. -- To make water. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. -- To make way, or To make one's way. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. -- To make words, to multiply words.

picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.

Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

ty, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out. Leaves are out and perfect in a month. Bacon. She has not been out [in general society] very long. H. James.

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent. [R.] The night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle. Shak.

A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." Longfellow.

o spring a butt (Naut.), to loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom. -- To spring a leak (Naut.), to begin to leak. -- To spring an arch (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common term among masons; as, to spring an arcg over a lintel. -- To spring a rattle, to cause a rattle to sound. See Watchman's rattle, under…

n England, in all probability, from the beginning of King Henry the Second's reign. S. M. Leake.