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Pale
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.
PalePale 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. Pale
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.
PalePale 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. Pale
Pale Pale, n.
Paleness; pallor. [R.] --Shak.
Meaning of Pale from wikipedia
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pale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Pale may
refer to:
Medieval areas of
English conquest:
Pale of Calais, in
France (1360–1558) The
Pale, or...
- The
Pale (Irish: An Pháil) or the
English Pale (An Pháil
Shasanach or An Ghalltacht) was the part of
Ireland directly under the
control of the English...
-
Pale Blue Dot is a
photograph of
Earth taken on
February 14, 1990, by the
Voyager 1
space probe from an
unprecedented distance of over 6
billion kilometers...
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India pale ale (IPA) is a
hoppy beer
style within the
broader category of
pale ale. It
originated in the
United Kingdom to be
exported to India, which...
-
Pale Fire is a 1962
novel by
Vladimir Nabokov. The
novel is
presented as a 999-line poem
titled "
Pale Fire",
written by the
fictional poet John Shade...
- The
Pale of
Settlement was a
western region of the
Russian Empire with
varying borders that
existed from 1791 to 1917 (de
facto until 1915) in
which permanent...
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Pale ale is a
golden to
amber coloured beer
style brewed with
pale malt. The term
first appeared in
England around 1703 for
beers made from
malts dried...
- In
heraldry and vexillology, a
Canadian pale is a
centre band of a
vertical triband flag (a
pale in heraldry) that
covers half the
length of a flag, rather...
- Look up
beyond the
pale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Beyond the
pale is a
figure of
speech that
means "behaviour
beyond the
boundary of acceptability"...
- "A
Whiter Shade of
Pale" is a song by the
English rock band
Procol Harum that was
issued as
their debut record on 12 May 1967. The
single reached number...
