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Pale   /peɪl/   Listen
adjective
Pale  adj.  (compar. paler; superl. palest)  
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." "Speechless he stood and pale." "They are not of complexion red or pale."
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." Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc.


noun
Pale  n.  Paleness; pallor. (R.)


Pale  n.  
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."
2.
That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge."
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." "Out of the pale of civilization."
4.
Hence: A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.
5.
A stripe or band, as on a garment.
6.
(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.
7.
A cheese scoop.
8.
(Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
English pale, Irish pale (Hist.), the limits or territory in Eastern Ireland within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country by Henry II in 1172. See note, below.
beyond the pale outside the limits of what is allowed or proper; also, outside the limits within which one is protected. Note: The English Pale. That part of Ireland in which English law was acknowledged, and within which the dominion of the English was restricted, for some centuries after the conquests of Henry II. John distributed the part of Ireland then subject to England into 12 counties palatine, and this region became subsequently known as the Pale, but the limits varied at different times.


verb
Pale  v. t.  To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. "The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire."


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."


Pale  v. i.  (past & past part. paled; pres. part. paling)  To turn pale; to lose color or luster. "Apt to pale at a trodden worm."





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... for it but to root out again after taps and the subdivision inspector's visit tonight," muttered Dick, who was alternately pale and flushed over the discovery, and all that it meant. "Gentlemen, will you come softly to my room fifteen minutes after the sub-division inspector's official ...
— Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point - Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life • H. Irving Hancock
... Lombardoni,—lady-killer, Don Juan, and poet, whose fortunes and misfortunes in these characters had made him the butt of the entire society, and had perhaps contributed, together with his well- known extraordinarily pronounced propensity for cramming himself with pastry, to give him the pale, puffed, pasty face, swelling around a pair of pale fish-like eyes, that distinguished him,—the Conte Leandro Lombardoni; indeed, had gone to the Castelmare palace as "Apollo," in a costume which young Ludovico Castelmare, the Marchese Lamberto's nephew, would insist on mistaking for that ...
— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... whose business motto was "No swindle, no sale," allowed several Jews to become Government contractors (podradchiki). These, while rendering valuable services, amassed considerable fortunes. Notwithstanding the law restricting Jewish residence to the Pale of Settlement, Catherine II speaks of Jews who resided in St. Petersburg for many years, and lodged in the house of a priest, who had been her confessor. Moreover, Jews contributed not a little to the liberal policy of Alexander ...
— The Haskalah Movement in Russia • Jacob S. Raisin
... the professor admitted. "Between ourselves," he added, a white, scared look upon his pale face, "he is spoiling my whole peace of mind. My enjoyment of the comforts which Elizabeth is able to provide for me is interfered with by that man's constant presence. He seldom speaks, and yet he seems always to be watching. I do not trust him, Beatrice. ...
— The Tempting of Tavernake • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... longing sighs, Mute and dull of cheer and pale, If at death's own door he lies, Maiden, ...
— A Shropshire Lad • A. E. Housman


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