Definitions for the word "pale" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. i.
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Paleness; pallor.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A stripe or band, as on a garment.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
A cheese scoop.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v. t.
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. adj.
1 (of a person, colour, or complexion) light or faint; whitish, ashen. 2 of faint lustre; dim. v. (-ling) 1 grow or make pale. 2 (often foll. By before, beside) seem feeble in comparison (with). palely adv. Paleness n. Palish adj. [latin pallidus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. n.
1 pointed piece of wood for fencing etc.; stake. 2 boundary. beyond the pale outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour. [latin palus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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