palea.[F. ple, fr. plir to turn pale, L. pallere to be or look pale. Cf. Appall, Fallow, pall, v. i., Pallid.]()1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.(Chaucer.)Speechless he stood and pale. (Milton.)They are not of complexion red or pale. (T. Randolph.)2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.()The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;
It looks a little paler. (Shak.)()n. Paleness; pallor.(Shak.)v. i. To turn pale; to lose color or luster.(Whittier.)Apt to pale at a trodden worm. (Mrs. Browning.)v. t. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.()The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. (Shak.)n.[F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See Pole a stake, and 1st Pallet.]1. 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.()Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. (Mortimer.)2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.(Robynson (More's Utopia).)3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.(Macaulay.)4. A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.()5. A stripe or band, as on a garment.(Chaucer.)6. (Her.) 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.()7. A cheese scoop.(Simmonds.)8. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.()English pale, Irish pale (Hist.), the limits or territory in Eastern Ireland within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country by Henry II in 1172. See note, below. -- beyond the pale outside the limits of what is allowed or proper; also, outside the limits within which one is protected. Spencer.()()v. t. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.()[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. (Shak.)n.[L., chaff.]()1. (Bot.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.()2. (Zol.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.()