Bleak

1. a. A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
2. a. Without color; pale; pallid.
3. a. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
4. a. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.