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What's The Definition Of 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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Pale: blanch | blench | colorless | colourless | light | light-colored | pallid | picket | thin | wan | weak Related Terms | Find terms related to Pale: abate | abnormal | achievement | achromatic | achromatize | 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livid | look black | lose color | lose courage | lose resolution | lot | low-profile | low-spirited | lozenge | lurid | lusterless | macabre | mantle | mantling | march | marches | marshaling | martlet | mascle | mat | mealy | mellow | merely glimpsed | metal | metes | metes and bounds | mist | misty | moribund | mortuary | mother-of-pearl | motto | muddy | mullet | nacreous | neutral | nombril point | obscure | octofoil | off-white | opalescent | or | orb | orbit | ordinary | orle | out of focus | outlines | outre | outskirts | pale as death | pale-faced | paling | palisade | pallid | paltry | paly | parameters | parcel of land | park | pastel | pasty | patch | patinaed | peaked | peaky | pean | pearl | pearly | pearly-white | peculiar | pedestrian | peg | pen | perimeter | periphery | peroxide | pheon | picket | pile | plat | plodding | plot | plot of ground | pointless | poky | ponderous | poor | post | precinct | prohibited | province | puny | purpure | quad | quadrangle | quarter | quartering | quiet | rail | real estate | realm | redden | reduced | reduced in health | restriction | rose | round | run-down | sable | sad | sallow | saltire | scutcheon | section | semigloss | semivisible | shadowy | shank | shield | sick | sickly | simple | skirts | slow | sober | soft | soft-colored | soften | softened | soft-hued | solemn | somber | sphere | spile | spiritless | spread eagle | square | stake | sterile | stiff | stodgy | strange | stuffy | subdued | subordinary | subtle | superficial | sweet | take alarm | take fright | tallow-faced | tame | tarnish | tasteless | tedious | tender | tenne | theater | tincture | toft | tone down | toneless | torse | tract | tressure | turn color | turn pale | turn red | turn white | unacceptable | uncanny | uncertain | unclear | uncolored | undefined | unearthly | unhealthy | unicorn | uninspired | unlively | unplain | unrecognizable | unseemly | unsound | unsubstantial | unsuitable | unusual | upright | vague | vair | valetudinarian | valetudinary | vapid | verboten | verges | vert | walk | wall | wan | wash out | washed out | washed-out | waterish | watery | waxen | weak | weakened | weakly | weird | whey-faced | white | whiten | whitened | whitish | whity | wishy-washy | with low resistance | wooden | wreath | yale | yard See Also | color | colour | discolor | discolour | paling | picket fence | strip Pale In Webster's Dictionary \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. |
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