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Definitions for: Pale
[n] a wooden strip forming part of a fence
[adj] abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"
[adj] lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"
[adj] very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"
[adj] not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"
[adj] (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"
[v] turn pale, as if in fear
Webster (1913) Definition: Pale, a. [Compar. Paler; superl. Palest.] [F.
p[^a]le, fr. p[^a]lir to turn pale, L. pallere to be o? look
pale. Cf. Appall, Fallow, pall, v. i., Pallid.]
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.
Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced,
pale-looking, etc.
Pale, n.
Paleness; pallor. [R.] --Shak.
Pale, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Paling.]
To turn pale; to lose color or luster. --Whittier.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs.
Browning.
Pale, v. t.
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, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See Pol? a
stake, and lst Pallet.]
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. (Her.) 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. (Shipbuilding) 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, v. t.
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.
Synonyms: blanch, blench, colorless, colourless, light, light-colored, pallid, picket, thin, wan, weak
See Also: color, colour, discolor, discolour, paling, picket fence, strip
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