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ck, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe. "One leak will sink a ship." Bunyan.

A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

The quality of being leaky.

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.

In a leaking condition.

Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.] When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. Foxe.

Bleak. [Obs.] Dryden.

A flake; a thread or twist. [Obs.] Little long fleaks or threads of hemp. Dr. H. More.

A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

A fish. See Bleak, n.

To cause to leak. [Obs.] See Bouge.

drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. Herbert. To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out." Burke.

To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond.

r joy. -- Death wound. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. -- Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. -- The gates of death, the grave. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee Job xxxviii. 17. -- The s…

A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.