▪ I. † bleyke, bleike, a. Obs.
[ME. bleik, a. ON. bleikr shining, white. See blayke.]
Pale.
| a 1300 Havelok 470 For hunger grene and bleike. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 39 Bleyke of colour, pallidus. |
▪ II. † bleyke, bleike, v. Obs.
[f. prec. adj.; cf. the analogy of blake a. and v. But ON. had bleikja to whiten, bleach, f. bleikr pale.]
intr. To become pale; = blake v. 1.
| c 1327 Poem Times of Edw. II in Pol. Songs 397 Thanne gan bleiken here ble. a 1475 Play Sacram. 477 Now am I bold with batayle him to bleyke [rime-wd. stryke]. |