pale

IPA: pˈeɪɫ

(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
A wooden stake; a picket.
(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
(heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
(archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
(historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
(historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
(archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
A cheese scoop.
(historical) The part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages.

(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
(intransitive) To become insignificant.
(transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

Light in color.
(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
Feeble, faint.

Examples of "pale" in Sentences

The raw nuts are then cooked, giving off a horrible odor and cracked open to reveal what we know as the pale tan cashew nut.
Below, we see the children of Charles I of England (by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1637) where the girls are swathed in pale blue and the boy in bold pink:
Local ones are fleshy, ripe, and burst with flavor, according to local growers n versus what they call the pale, mealy "wannabees" coming from out of state!
The class of beings signified by a universal term of this sort is indeed prior to the universal term, e.g., the class of pale things to the universal term ˜pale™.
But even if unorthodox, and pro-Executive, and aggressive, readings of the law are in some cases permissible, what should be beyond the pale is acting in accord with a body of secret law. continue reading ...
The difference cannot be that our language contains a single word (˜man™) for a rational animal, but no single word for a pale man, for Aristotle has already conceded (1029b28) that we might very well have had a single term (he suggests himation, literally ˜cloak™) for a pale man, but that would still not make the formula ˜pale man™ a definition nor pale man an essence (1030a2).