1. (v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

2. (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

3. (n.) Paleness; pallor.

4. (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

5. (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

6. (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.

7. (n.) That which encloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

8. (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an enclosure; -- often used figuratively.

9. (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.

10. (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.

11. (n.) A cheese scoop.

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

13. (v. t.) To enclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

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