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pale |
7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pale \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pale \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pale \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pale \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pale \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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pale \Pale\, n. Paleness; pallor. [R.] --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pale adj 1: very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes" 2: (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" [syn: {pallid}, {wan}] 3: lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance" [syn: {pallid}] 4: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: {pallid}, {wan}] 5: not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song" n : a wooden strip forming part of a fence [syn: {picket}] v : turn pale, as if in fear [syn: {blanch}, {blench}]
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