[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With
rocks unscalable and roaring waters. --Shak.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs.
Browning.
The glow?worm shows the matin to be near, And gins to
pale his uneffectual fire. --Shak.
Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
--Mortimer.
2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a
fence; a palisade. ``Within one pale or hedge.''
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region
or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. ``To
walk the studious cloister's pale.'' --Milton. ``Out of
the pale of civilization.'' --Macaulay.
4. A stripe or band, as on a garment. --Chaucer.
5. (Her.) 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.
6. A cheese scoop. --Simmonds.
7. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is
fastened.
{English pale} (Hist.), the limits or territory within which
alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for
a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172.
--Spencer.
Speechless he stood and pale. --Milton.
They are not of complexion red or pale. --T.
Randolph.
2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim;
as, the pale light of the moon.
The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It
looks a little paler. --Shak.
Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced,
pale-looking, etc.