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See Leveful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton.

Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.

A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.

As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.

Full of stories. [R.] Thomson.

As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. Dryden.

Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.

ut have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.

To require; to demand; to claim. [Obs.] A doleful case desires a doleful song. Spenser.

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.

Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful. -- Dole"some*ly, adv. -- Dole"some*ness, n.

Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort. Shak.

y; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. March slowly on in solemn dump. Hudibras. Doleful dumps the mind oppress. Shak. I was musing in the midst of my dumps. Bunyan.

Lamentable; doleful. [R.] "Funest and direful deaths." Coleridge. A forerunner of something very funest. Evelyn.

rrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding. Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio. Carlyle.