pale

[Pale]

After a long summer in the pool and the bright sun, your favorite rainbow colored beach swimsuit will probably end up pale and faded. Pale means "having little color."

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Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

Noun
a wooden strip forming part of a fence

Verb
turn pale, as if in fear

Adjective S.
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"

Adjective S.
lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

Adjective S.
very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"

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Adjective S.
not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

Adjective S.
(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 li


v. i.
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

v. i.
Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

n.
Paleness; pallor.

v. i.
To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

v. t.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

n.
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.

n.
That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

n.
A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.

n.
A stripe or band, as on a garment.

n.
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.

n.
A cheese scoop.

n.
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

v. t.
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.


Pale

Pale , a. [Compar. Paler ; superl. Palest.] [F. p'83le, fr. p'83lir 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.
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.
&hand; Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc.

Pale

Pale, n. Paleness; pallor. [R.] Shak.

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.

Pale

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

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.
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

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.

Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

Paleness; pallor.

To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

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.

To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

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Usage Examples

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

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Other Usage Examples

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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