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goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw Bale of dice, a pair of dice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

es of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia. Balearic crane. (Zoöl.) See Crane.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

A signal fire; an alarm fire. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more. Sir W. Scott.

Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive. "Baleful enemies." Shak. Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton.

In a baleful manner; perniciously.

The quality or state of being baleful.

vice for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

To make up into a bale or pack. Johnson.

A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

A seasoned preparation, as of chicken, lobster, cheese, or fish, cooked in a drum-shaped mold; also, a pastry case, usually small, filled with a cooked mixture.

A crossbow. See Arbalest.

the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

A library. [Obs.] Bale.

To obstruct entrance to or egress from. Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door. Pope.

The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

Beastly; brutal. [Obs.] Bale.

Resembling a buffalo. Bubaline antelope (Zoöl.), the bubale.