the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Pale
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
(3):
(n.) A cheese scoop.
(4):
(n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; - often used figuratively.
(5):
(n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
(6):
(n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
(7):
(v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
(8):
(v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
(9):
(v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
(10):
(v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
(11):
(n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.
(12):
(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.
(13):
(n.) Paleness; pallor.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pale'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pale.html. 1828.
