PPage 15
- English Word Pale Definition Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
- English Word Pale Definition Paleness; pallor.
- English Word Pale Definition To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
- English Word Pale Definition To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- English Word Pale Definition 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.
- English Word Pale Definition That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
- English Word Pale Definition A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
- English Word Pale Definition A stripe or band, as on a garment.
- English Word Pale Definition 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.
- English Word Pale Definition A cheese scoop.
- English Word Pale Definition A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
- English Word Pale Definition To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
- English Word Palea Definition The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
- English Word Palea Definition One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
- English Word Palea Definition A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
- English Word Paleaceous Definition Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.
- English Word Paleae Definition of Palea
- English Word Palearctic Definition Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
- English Word Paled Definition of Pale
- English Word Paled Definition Striped.
- English Word Paled Definition Inclosed with a paling.
- English Word Paleechinoidea Definition An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini.
- English Word Paleface Definition A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.
- English Word Paleichthyes Definition A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids.
- English Word Palely Definition In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.
- English Word Palempore Definition A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings.
- English Word Paleness Definition The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
- English Word Palenque Definition A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.
- English Word Paleo- Definition A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography.
- English Word Paleobotanist Definition One versed in paleobotany.