adjective. Whitish in complexion; pallid.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Of a low intensity of color; light.

adjective. Having high lightness and low saturation.

adjective. Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint.

adjective. Feeble; weak.

intransitive verb. To cause to turn pale.

intransitive verb. To become pale; blanch.

intransitive verb. To decrease in relative importance.

noun. A stake or pointed stick; a picket.

noun. A fence enclosing an area.

noun. The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

noun. undefined

noun. A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction.

noun. The medieval dominions of the English in Ireland. Used with the.

noun. A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.

transitive verb. To enclose with pales; fence in.

idiom. (beyond the pale) Irrevocably unacceptable or unreasonable.

To inclose with pales; fence.

To inclose; encircle; encompass.

noun. A bakers' shovel or peel.

noun. An instrument for trying the quality of cheese; a cheese-scoop.

To grow or turn pale; hence, to become insignificant.

To make pale; diminish the brightness of; dim.

noun. A stake; a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground, as in a fence; a picket.

noun. A fence or paling; that which incloses, fences in, or confines; hence, barrier, limits, bounds.

noun. An inclosed place; an inclosure; the inclosure of a castle.

noun. A district or region within determined bounds; hence, limits; bounds; sphere; scope.

noun. In heraldry, a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges and usually occupying one third of it: the first and simplest kind of ordinary. When not charged, it is often represented as containing only one fifth of the field.

noun. A perpendicular stripe on cloth.

noun. In ship-building, one of the interior shores for steadying the timbers of a ship in construction.

To beat or thrash (barley), so as to detach it from the awns or chaff. See pale, n., 1.

Of a whitish or wan appearance; lacking color; not ruddy or fresh in color or complexion; pallid; wan: as, a pale face.

Lacking chromatic intensity, approximating to white or whitish blue or whitish violet: thus, moonlight and lilacs are pale. A red, yellow, or green may be called pale if very near white.

Of light color as compared with others of the same sort: applied especially to certain liquors: as, pale brandy; pale sherry; pale ale.

Synonyms Pale, Pallid, Wan, colorless. The first three words stand in the order of strength; the next degree beyond wan is ghastly, which means deathly pale. (See ghastly.) To be pale may be natural, as the pale blue of the violet; the American Indian calls the white man paleface; to be pallid or wan is a sign of ill health. Paleness may be a brief or momentary state; pallid and wan express that which is not so quickly recovered from. Pale has a wide range of application; pallid and wan apply chiefly to the human countenance, though with possible figurative extension.

noun. Paleness; pallor.

noun. Chaff.

noun. In botany, same as palea .

noun. Paleness; pallor.

transitive verb. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

intransitive verb. To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

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

noun. 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.

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

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

noun. A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.

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

noun. 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.

noun. A cheese scoop.

"The difference cannot be that our language contains a single word (˜man™) for a rational animal, but no single word for a pale man, for Aristotle has already conceded (1029b28) that we might very well have had a single term (he suggests himation, literally ˜cloak™) for a pale man, but that would still not make the formula ˜pale man™ a definition nor pale man an essence (1030a2)."

blush  blushing  dark  flushed  red  

cross pale  dim  in pale  pale bark  pale catechu  

colorless  colourless  irish pale  light  light-colored  

impale  palisade  pallescent  

pale in comparison  paled  paling  

color  colour  discolor  discolour  strip  

Bayle  Braille  Dail  Dale  Gael  

cold  dull  thin  yellow  

abate  abnormal  achievement  achromatic  achromatize  

paled  paleness  pales  paling