DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUNS 4. gladness (dialect obsolete) 5. a tear (dialect obsolete) 6. bleak weather from an exposed quarter (dialect) also in forms bliacuo, bliacuoh, bléo(h, bleo, ble, bleye adjective also in form BLEA (dialect) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES From E-NED: Old English bléo (bléoh, after féoh) str. neut. = Old Saxon blî, OFris. blî, blie, north. Fris. bläy:—OTeut. *blîjo-(m colour, hue. (Not connected with blae, blue.) A purely poetical word in ME., which gradually became obs. in the course of the 16th or early in the 17th c. (not in Shakespeare); but being frequent in ballads and metrical romances, it has been used by one or two modern poets. Cf. dial. bly, thought by some to be a survival of ble. (for noun 1) From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 (for noun 2)
From: The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, 1881-6 Volume XIV. Plays. A Pleasant Conceyted Comedie of George a Greene, The Pinner of Wakefield, 1599 P. 165
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