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Packs or bales of Spanish wool.

Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.

Persuasive. [Obs.] Bale. -- Per*sua"si*ble*ness, n. -- Per*sua"si*bly, adv.

The art telling fortunes by inspection of the features. [Obs.] Bale.

smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster. Bale.

Tares. [Obs.] "To sow popple among wheat." Bale.

The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale.

A female presbyter. Bale.

instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. [Obs.] Bale.

To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods. Hence: --

On all sides; around. Round he throws his baleful eyes. Milton.

Famous; notorious. [Obs.] Bale.

Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful. [Archaic] But, to destruction sacred and devote. Milton.

A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight. [Eng.]

r in or with a shriek or shrieks. On top whereof aye dwelt the ghostly owl, Shrieking his baleful note. Spenser. She shrieked his name To the dark woods. Moore.

Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. "Sideral blast." Milton.

Feigned; pretended. Bale.

A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.

The emerald. [Obs.] Bale.