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(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pale'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pale.html. 1828.
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