PALE
\pˈe͡ɪl], \pˈeɪl], \p_ˈeɪ_l]\
Definitions of PALE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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turn pale, as if in fear
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abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"
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very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"
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not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"
By Princeton University
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turn pale, as if in fear
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abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"
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very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"
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not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
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Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
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Paleness; pallor.
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To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
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To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
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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.
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That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
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A stripe or band, as on a garment.
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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.
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A cheese scoop.
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A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
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To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
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A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; - often used figuratively.
By Oddity Software
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Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
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Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
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Paleness; pallor.
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To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
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To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
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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.
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That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
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A stripe or band, as on a garment.
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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.
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A cheese scoop.
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A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
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To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
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A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; - often used figuratively.
By Noah Webster.
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Wan; wanting in color; of a faint luster or brightness.
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A narrow board used in fencing; a pointed stake; space inclosed by rails; limit; district or territory; restricted locality.
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To turn white, or to lose color.
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To inclose with, or as with, pales or narrow upright boards.
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Palely.
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Paleness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Palely.
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Paleness.
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A narrow piece of wood used in inclosing grounds: anything that incloses: any inclosure: limit: district.
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To inclose with stakes: to encompass.
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Not ruddy or fresh of color: wan: of a faint lustre: dim.
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To turn pale.
By Daniel Lyons
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Palely.
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Paleness.
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To enclose with pales.
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Of a whitish appearance; of a light shade; pallid.
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A pointed stick; a fence stake; paling; boundary; enclosure.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Paleness.
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To enclose.
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To turn pale or wan; to become pale.
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A narrow-pointed piece of board fixed in the ground, or nailed to a rail, or both, used to enclose grounds and parks; that which encloses or fences in; the space enclosed by rails; limits or limited territory; in her., a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon; a cheese-scoop; used figuratively, as within the pale of the Church.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By William R. Warner
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To turn pale.
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Not ruddy or fresh of colour; wan; of a faint lustre.
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A narrow board used in fencing; a pointed stake; limit; an inclosure; district.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Latin] A pointed stake driven into the ground and fastened to a rail at the top; a picket;—an inclosing boundary; a limit; a fence;—space in closed; an in closure; a limited territory;—in heraldry, one of the greater ordinaries.
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