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pale

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1. pale - Noun

2. pale - Adjective

3. pale - Verb

4. pale - Adjective Satellite

5. Pale - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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

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.

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

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

A stripe or band, as on a garment.

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.

A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking. Julius Caesar

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

. . . there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. George Eliot

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right. Hilaire Belloc

A blushing lie is better than the pale truth. Norwegian Proverb

Better to blush once than pale a hundred times. Serbian Proverb

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