Category:Pale

Pale, a. [compar. Paler; superl. Palest.] Etym: [f. pâle, fr. pâlir To turn pale, l. pallere to be oappall, 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 Pale, n.

Defn: paleness; pallor. [r.] Shak.

Pale Pale, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paled; p. pr. & vb. n. Paling.]

Defn: to turn pale; to lose color or luster. Whittier. Apt to pale at a trodden worm. Mrs. Browning.

Pale Pale, v. t.

Defn: to make pale; to diminish the brightness of. The glowpale his uneffectual fire. Shak.

Pale Pale, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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, v. t.

Defn: 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.