pale🔊

{{U|light}} in color.

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

Feeble, faint.

To turn pale; to lose colour.

To become insignificant.

To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.

A wooden stake; a picket.

(archaic) A fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before (of)).

(heraldry)(heraldiccharge) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

(archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.

(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.

(historical) The territory around {{w|Calais}} under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).

(historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the (Pale of Settlement)).

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

A cheese scoop.P. L. Simmonds, ''A Dictionary of Trade Products, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms'', London: Routledge, 1858, p. 272,[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011604059]

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