Pale
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(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.
King James Dictionary [2]
PALE, a. L. palleo,pallidus.
1. White or whitish wan deficient in color not ruddy or fresh of color as a pale face or skin pale cheeks. We say also, a pale red, a pale blue,that is, a whitish red or blue. Pale is not precisely synonymous with white, as it usually denotes what we call wan, a darkish dun white. 2. Not bright not shining of a faint luster dim as the pale light of the moon.
The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick
It looks a little paler.
PALE, To make pale.
PALE, n. L. palus coinciding with Eng. pole, as well as pale. It has the elements of L. pala,a spade or shovel.
1. A narrow board pointed or sharpened at one end, used in fencing or inclosing. This is with us more generally called a picket. 2. A pointed stake hence to empale,which see. 3. An inclosure properly,that which incloses, like fence, limit hence,the space inclosed. He was born within the pale of the church within the pale of christianity. 4. District limited territory. 5. In heraldry, an ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines drawn from the top to the base of the escutcheon, and containing the third middle part of the field.
PALE, To inclose with pales or stakes.
1. To inclose to encompass.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"pale green," is translated "pale" (of a horse) in Revelation 6:8 , symbolizing death. See Green.
