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Meaning Of Pale

  1. v. i.
    Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
  2. v. i.
    Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
  3. n.
    Paleness; pallor.
  4. v. i.
    To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
  5. v. t.
    To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
  6. 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.
  7. n.
    That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
  8. n.
    A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
  9. n.
    A stripe or band, as on a garment.
  10. 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.
  11. n.
    A cheese scoop.
  12. n.
    A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
  13. v. t.
    To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.



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