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Pale

Pale (pale)
a.(?)
Pale
[Compar. Paler (?); superl. Palest.] [F. pâle, fr. pâlir to turn pale, L. pallere to be o(?) look pale. Cf. Appall, Fallow, pall
  1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
    "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer.

    Speechless he stood and pale. Milton.

    They are not of complexion red or pale. T. Randolph.

  2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

    The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;
    It looks a little paler.
    Shak.

    * Pale is often used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc.


Pale

Pale (pale)
n.
Pale
  1. Paleness; pallor.
    [R.] Shak.

Pale

Pale (pale)
v. i.
Pale
  1. To turn pale] to lose color or luster.
    Whittier.

    Apt to pale at a trodden worm. Mrs. Browning.


Pale

Pale (pale)
v. t.
Pale
  1. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

    The glow(?)worm shows the matin to be near,
    And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
    Shak.


Pale

Pale (pale)
n.
Pale
  1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.

    Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. Mortimer.

  2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
    "Within one pale or hedge." Robynson (More's Utopia).
  3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
    "To walk the studious cloister's pale." Milton. "Out of the pale of civilization." Macaulay.
  4. A stripe or band, as on a garment.
    Chaucer.
  5. One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
  6. A cheese scoop.
    Simmonds.
  7. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

    English pale (Hist.), the limits or territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. Spencer.


Pale

Pale (pale)
v. t.
Pale
  1. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

    [Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in
    With rocks unscalable and roaring waters.
    Shak.














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