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n. A stake or pointed stick; a picket.

n. A fence enclosing an area.

n. The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

n. A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction.

n. The medieval dominions of the English in Ireland. Used with the.

n. Heraldry A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.

v. To enclose with pales; fence in.

idiom. beyond the pale Irrevocably unacceptable or unreasonable: behavior that was quite beyond the pale.

adj. Whitish in complexion; pallid.

adj. Of a low intensity of color; light.

adj. Having high lightness and low saturation.

adj. Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint: "a late afternoon sun coming through the el tracks and falling in pale oblongs on the cracked, empty sidewalks” ( Jimmy Breslin).

adj. Feeble; weak: a pale rendition of the aria.

v. To cause to turn pale.

verb-intransitive. To become pale; blanch: paled with fright.

verb-intransitive. To decrease in relative importance.

adj. Light in color.

adj. Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.)

v. To become pale, to become insignificant.

n. Wooden stake.

n. Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

n. Limits, bounds (especially before of).

n. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.

n. A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

n. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.

n. The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.

v. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

adj. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan

adj. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim.

n. Paleness; pallor.

verb-intransitive. To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

v. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

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.

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

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

n. A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.

n. A stripe or band, as on a garment.

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.

n. A cheese scoop.

n. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

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

n. A stake; a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground, as in a fence; a picket.

n. A fence or paling; that which incloses, fences in, or confines; hence, barrier, limits, bounds.

n. An inclosed place; an inclosure; the inclosure of a castle.

n. A district or region within determined bounds; hence, limits; bounds; sphere; scope.

n. In heraldry, a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges and usually occupying one third of it: the first and simplest kind of ordinary. When not charged, it is often represented as containing only one fifth of the field.

n. A perpendicular stripe on cloth.

n. In ship-building, one of the interior shores for steadying the timbers of a ship in construction.

To inclose with pales; fence.

To inclose; encircle; encompass.

Of a whitish or wan appearance; lacking color; not ruddy or fresh in color or complexion; pallid; wan: as, a pale face.

Lacking chromatic intensity, approximating to white or whitish blue or whitish violet: thus, moonlight and lilacs are pale. A red, yellow, or green may be called pale if very near white.

Of light color as compared with others of the same sort: applied especially to certain liquors: as, pale brandy; pale sherry; pale ale.

Synonyms Pale, Pallid, Wan, colorless. The first three words stand in the order of strength; the next degree beyond wan is ghastly, which means deathly pale. (See ghastly.) To be pale may be natural, as the pale blue of the violet; the American Indian calls the white man paleface; to be pallid or wan is a sign of ill health. Paleness may be a brief or momentary state; pallid and wan express that which is not so quickly recovered from. Pale has a wide range of application; pallid and wan apply chiefly to the human countenance, though with possible figurative extension.

n. Paleness; pallor.

To grow or turn pale; hence, to become insignificant.

To make pale; diminish the brightness of; dim.

n. A bakers' shovel or peel.

n. An instrument for trying the quality of cheese; a cheese-scoop.

n. Chaff.

n. In botany, same as palea .

To beat or thrash (barley), so as to detach it from the awns or chaff. See pale, n., 1.

adj. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness

v. turn pale, as if in fear

n. a wooden strip forming part of a fence

adj. very light colored; highly diluted with white

adj. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

adj. not full or rich

"The difference cannot be that our language contains a single word (˜man™) for a rational animal, but no single word for a pale man, for Aristotle has already conceded (1029b28) that we might very well have had a single term (he suggests himation, literally ˜cloak™) for a pale man, but that would still not make the formula ˜pale man™ a definition nor pale man an essence (1030a2)."

colorless    colourless    light-colored    light    weak    thin    irish pale   

blushing    flushed    red    red-faced    dark    blush   

paled    paleness    pales    paling   

colour    color    discolour    discolor    strip   

dim    in pale    pale catechu    party per pale    cross pale    the english pale    pale cod-liver oil    pale peruvian bark    pale indorsed    to leap the pale   

impale    palisade    pallescent   

paled    paling    pale in comparison   

pallid    wan    dim    paleness    pallor    picket    boundary    limit    fence    palisade   

Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   

thin    yellow    dull    cold