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. --Shak.

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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. --Mrs. Browning.

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Pale \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.

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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. --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.

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Pale \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.

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

--Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)