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PALE, a. L. palleo,pallidus.

1. White or whitish wan deficient in color not ruddy or fresh of color as a pale face or skin pale cheeks. We say also, a pale red, a pale blue,that is, a whitish red or blue. Pale is not precisely synonymous with white, as it usually denotes what we call wan, a darkish dun white.

2. Not bright not shining of a faint luster dim as the pale light of the moon.

The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick

It looks a little paler.

PALE, To make pale.

PALE, n. L. palus coinciding with Eng. pole, as well as pale. It has the elements of L. pala,a spade or shovel.

1. A narrow board pointed or sharpened at one end, used in fencing or inclosing. This is with us more generally called a picket.

2. A pointed stake hence to empale,which see.

3. An inclosure properly,that which incloses, like fence, limit hence,the space inclosed. He was born within the pale of the church within the pale of christianity.

4. District limited territory.

5. In heraldry, an ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines drawn from the top to the base of the escutcheon, and containing the third middle part of the field.

PALE, To inclose with pales or stakes.

1. To inclose to encompass.