Pale

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1. Verb

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

2. Verb

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

3. Noun

Paleness; pallor.

4. Verb

To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

5. Verb

To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

6. Noun

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.

7. Noun

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

8. Noun

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

9. Noun

A stripe or band, as on a garment.

10. Noun

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.

11. Noun

A cheese scoop.

12. Noun

A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

13. Verb

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