1. A stake or pointed stick; a picket.
2. A fence enclosing an area.
3. the area enclosed by a fence or boundary.
4. A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction.
5. the medieval dominions of the english in ireland. used with the.
6. heraldry A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.
7. to enclose with pales; fence in.
8. beyond the pale irrevocably unacceptable or unreasonable: behavior that was quite beyond the pale.
9. whitish in complexion; pallid.
10. of a low intensity of color; light.
11. having high lightness and low saturation.
12. of a low intensity of light; dim or faint: "a late afternoon sun coming through the el tracks and falling in pale oblongs on the cracked, empty sidewalks” ( jimmy Breslin).
13. feeble; weak: a pale rendition of the aria.
14. to cause to turn pale.
15. to become pale; blanch: paled with fright.
16. to decrease in relative importance.

1. light in color.
2. having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.)
3. to become pale, to become insignificant.
4. wooden stake.
5. fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
6. limits, bounds (especially before of).
7. the bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
8. A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
9. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
10. the jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
11. to enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

1. wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan
2. not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim.
3. paleness; pallor.
4. 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.
5. that which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
6. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
7. A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.
8. A stripe or band, as on a garment.
9. 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.
10. A cheese scoop.
11. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
12. to turn pale; to lose color or luster.
13. to make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
14. to inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

1. to inclose with pales; fence.
2. to inclose; encircle; encompass.
3. of a whitish or wan appearance; lacking color; not ruddy or fresh in color or complexion; pallid; wan: as, a pale face.
4. lacking chromatic intensity, approximating to white or whitish blue or whitish violet: thus, moonlight and lilacs are pale. A red, yellow, or green may be called pale if very near white.
5. of light color as compared with others of the same sort: applied especially to certain liquors: as, pale brandy; pale sherry; pale ale.
6.
7. paleness; pallor.
8. to grow or turn pale; hence, to become insignificant.
9. to make pale; diminish the brightness of; dim.
10. to beat or thrash (barley), so as to detach it from the awns or chaff. see pale, n., 1.
11. A stake; a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground, as in a fence; a picket.
12. A fence or paling; that which incloses, fences in, or confines; hence, barrier, limits, bounds.
13. an inclosed place; an inclosure; the inclosure of a castle.
14. A district or region within determined bounds; hence, limits; bounds; sphere; scope.
15. in heraldry, a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges and usually occupying one third of it: the first and simplest kind of ordinary. when not charged, it is often represented as containing only one fifth of the field.
16. A perpendicular stripe on cloth.
17. in ship-building, one of the interior shores for steadying the timbers of a ship in construction.
18. A bakers' shovel or peel.
19. an instrument for trying the quality of cheese; a cheese-scoop.
20. chaff.
21. in botany, same as palea .

1. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
2. turn pale, as if in fear
3. a wooden strip forming part of a fence
4. very light colored; highly diluted with white
5. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
6. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
7. not full or rich