BA'LEFUL, adjective [See Bale.] Woeful; sad; sorrowful; full of grief; producing misery; as, a baleful smart; baleful eyes. 2. Mischievous; destructive; pernicious; calamitous; deadly; as, baleful enemies; baleful war.
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