Word Meaning

pales definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for pales

- Deep sleep
- Go white
- Grow dull
- Lacking brightness
- Lacking brightness of colour
- Lacking colour
- Light coloured
- Lose colour
- Pallid, anaemic, light, even initially
- show fear
- Wan
- Becomes ashen
- Loses colour
- Turns white