Definition of pale

• v. i. - Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
• v. i. - Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
• n. - Paleness; pallor.
• v. i. - To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
• v. t. - To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
• 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.
• n. - That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
• n. - A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
• n. - A stripe or band, as on a garment.
• 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.
• n. - A cheese scoop.
• n. - A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
• v. t. - To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.