palay 
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settled a new town at Arrahat- 
paleiform 
palay (pa-la'), , [E.Ind.] 1. Atree,JlnY/,,<! tu ck ^bouTflfty'miies above Jamestown, paling in the 
tiactoria : its leaves afford the pala-mdigo, an 1)eck ' abov e two miles from the point, from one reach^of 
article inferior to the genuine indigo, bee 
irory-tree. Also pala. Z. A high-climbing 
plant, Cryptostegia yramli flora, of the Asdcpia- 
dacese, cultivated in India and elsewhere. Its 
fiber is fine, strong, and flax-like, and its milky 
juice contains a caoutchouc. 
pale 1 (pal), . [< ME. pale,paal, < OF. (and F. > 
pal = Sp. palo = Pg. pao = It. palo, < L. paltis, pa i e 2 ( p al), a. and . [< ME. pale, paale, < OF. 
rarely neut.paluni, a stake, prop, stay, pale, orig. ,,0^ palle, pasle, F.pdle = Sp. pdlido = Pg. It. 
*paglus (cf. dim. paxillus), < pangere (/ j>60, pallido, < L. pallidus, pale, pallid, wan, < pal- 
fix, fasten: see pact. Cf. pole*-, from the same ( er<!i De pale. Cf. pallid (a doublet of palel) 
source, through AS.; and cf. deriv. palise,pali- an( j p a u orj from the same ult. source.] I. <i. 
sade.J 1. A stake; a pointed piece of wood i_ of a whitish or wan appearance; lacking 
driven into the ground, as in a fence; a picket. eo i or; not ruddy or fresh in color or complexion; 
pallid; wan: as, a, pale face. 
trie river to the other. Beverley, Virginia, L 1 25. 
2. To inclose ; encircle ; encompass. 
Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky iuclips, 
Is thine, if thou wilt ha' it. 
Shak., A. and C., ii. 7. 74. 
So shall the earth with seas \xpali-d in. 
Middleton, Solomon Paraphrased, v. 
cf 
With new wallis vp wroght, water before, 
And pals haue thai pight, with pittis and caves, 
And other wilis of werre wroght for our sake. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6610. 
In that small house, with those green pales before, 
Where jasmine trails on either side the door. 
Crabbc, Works, I. 109. 
But each upbore a stately tent 
Where cedar pales in scented row 
Kept out the Hakes of the dancing brine. 
Browning, Paracelsus. 
2. A fence or paling; that which incloses, 
fences in, or confines ; hence, barrier, limits, 
bounds. 
Iff thou go with any man in felde or in towne, 
Be wall or by hcge, by pales [palace] or by pale. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 63. 
But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale 
And feeds from home. Shak., C. of E., ii. 1. 100. 
The child of Elle to his garden went, 
And stood at his garden pale. 
The Child of Elle (Child's Ballads, III. 2-26). 
Never have I known the world without, 
Nor ever stray'd beyond the pale. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
3. An inclosed place ; an inclosure ; the inclo- 
sure of a castle. 
Past to his palais, & his pale entrid. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8025. 
4. A district or region within determined 
bounds; hence, limits ; bounds; sphere; scope. 
The Silures forgett not to infest the Roman pale with 
wide excursions. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
Hoary priest ! thy dream is done 
Of a hundred red tribes won 
To the pale of Holy Church. 
Whittier, Mogg Megone. 
5. In her., a broad perpendicular stripe in an 
escutcheon, equally distant 
from the two edges and usu- 
ally occupying one third of it : 
the first and simplest kind of 
ordinary. When not charged, 
it is often represented as con- 
taining only one fifth of the 
field. 6f. A perpendicular 
stripe on cloth. 
But what art thow that seyst this tale, 
That werest on thyn hose a pale > 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1840. 
7. In ship-building, one of the interior shores 
for steadying the timbers of a ship in con- 
struction. E. S. Knight Cross pale, in her. See 
crossi. In pale, in her., borne vertically, and when 
only one bearing is spoken of in the middle of the field. 
When two or more charges are blazoned in pale, they 
should be set one above the other, occupying the middle 
of the field and each in a vertical position if practicable ; 
such objects placed horizontally one above another must 
be blazoned as barwise in pale. Pale Indorsed, in her., 
a pale between two indorses. Per pale, or party per 
pale, divided into two equal parts by a vertical line : said 
of the escutcheon. Also counterly and grafted. The Eng- 
lish pale, that part of Ireland in which English law was 
Now certeinly he was a fair prelat, 
He was nat pale, as a f or-pyned goost. 
CMucer Gen Prol. to C. T., 1. 206. 
^ 
Will, when looking well can't move her, 
Looking ill prevail? Suckling, 
And my most constant heart, to do him good, 
Shall check at neither pale affright nor blood. 
Various forms of Paleffi. 
a the spikelet of Avena satjva (oat), showing the palea inside the 
flowering glume; b, the same, the parts separated (P, the palea); 
c part of the receptacle of Achillia Millifolmm with the paleae ; d, 
part of the stem of a fern (Asfiditim marginaltl, covered with 
paleae. 
2. In oriiith., a fleshy pendulous skin of the 
chin or throat, as the dewlap or wattle of the 
turkey. 
Song, paleaceous (pa-le-a'shius), a. [Also palsea- 
ceous; = F. paUacf, < NL. *paleacem,< L. palea, 
chaff: seejjafe*.] In lot., chaffy; covered with 
2. Lacking chromatic intensity, approximating arc tic.'} Of or pertaining to the northern part 
to white or whitish blue or whitish violet: thus, of tne Old World, or northern sections of the 
moonlight and lilacs are pale. A red, yellow, eag t ern hemisphere : distinguished from Nearc- 
or green may be called pale if very near white. 
This night methinks is but the daylight sick ; 
It looks a little paler. Shak., M. of V., v. 1. 126. 
tic PalearctiC region, in Sclater's system of zoogeog- 
raphy, the most extensive of six faunal regions into which 
the land-surface of the globe is divided, including all 
Europe, northern Africa, and northern Asia, being the 
regions north of those called Ethiopian and Indian. The 
southern boundary is indeterminate, but in a general way 
The flowery May, who from her green lap throws 
The yellow cowslip and thepale primrose. souuiern ixmmmry IB umci^iuiui.^, "v ... . K . , 
Milton, Song on May Morning. correBpondfl to th ' e Atlas range in Africa and the Hima 
The first Writing was turned so pale that they took no lavas in Asia. It is divided into several subregions. 
pains to rub it out. Lifter, Journey to Paris, p. 108. palebelly (pal'bel"i), n. The young of the 
3 Of light color as compared with others of the American golden plover. G. TrumbuU. [Mas- 
jtt^y^t'fiSESZ pS^^pal'brest), n. Same * palelelly. 
bark. See bark*.- Pale catechu. Same as yambier.- [Massachusetts. J ,,.,-, A 
Pale cod-liver oil. Seecc^-iiner.-^Palepld.goldjnuch palebuck (pal'buk), n. JJTr. p.^Meeklok.] An 
(.pale 1 , 
Striped as with different colors. 
........e presez a preker ine, fulle proudely arayede, 
That beres alle of pourpour, palyde with sylver : 
Bvcclv on a broune stede he profers fulle large. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1375. 
Buskins he wore of costliest cordwayne, 
Pinckt upon gold, and paled part per part. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. it 6. 
Lack-luster, as in 
American Indian calls the white man paleface ; to he pallid 
or wan is a sign of ill health. Paleneta may be a brief or 
momentary state ; pallid and wan express that which is 
not so quickly recovered from. Pale has a wide range of 
application ; pallid and wan apply chiefly to the human 
countenance, though with possible figurative extension. 
II. t n. Paleness; pallor. [Rare.] 
A sudden pale, pale-deadt (pal'ded), a. Lack-luster, 
Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose, death ; ghastly. Shak., Hen. V ., IV. 2. 48. 
Usurps her cheek. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 589. palednCSS (pa'led-nes), n. Paleness. J. 1 
Argent, a pale 
azure. 
pale 2 (pal), v. ; pret. and -pp. paled, ppr. paling, mont, Psyche, vii. 71. 
[< OF. pallir, palir, F. pdlir, grow pale, < L. pale-eyed (pal'id), a. 
pallere, be pale: see pale 2 , .] I. intrans. To 
grow or turn pale ; hence, to become insignifi- 
cant. 
October's clear and noonday sun 
Paled in the breath-smoke of the gun. 
WhttKer, Yorktown. 
The wife, who watch'd his face, 
Paled at a sudden twitch of his iron mouth. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
II. trans. To make pale ; diminish the bright- 
ness of; dim. 
The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, 
And gins to pale his uneff ectual fire. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 5. 90. 
. Beau- 
Havingpale or dim eyes. 
No nightly trance, or breathed spell, 
Inspires the vale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 
Milton, Nativity, 1.180. 
paleface (pal'fas), n. A name for a white per- 
son attributed to the American Indians, as if 
translated from a term in their languages. 
The hunting-grounds of the Lenape contained vales as 
pleasant, streams as pure, and flowers as sweet as the 
" heaven ol the palejaces." 
J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xxxni. 
pale-faced (pal'f ast), a. Having a pale or wan 
face. 
And now the pale-faced empress of the night 
Nine times had filled her orb with borrowed light. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Epistles, xi. 61. 
Afar a jagged streak of lightning burned, 
Paling the sunshine that the dark woods lit. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, in. 247. palefrenier (pal'e-fre-ner), n. [OF., < palefret, 
n"whichlhedominion"oftheEng. pa le3(p a l).. [Also .pee* (see peel*),< OF. pale, a palfrey: see palfrey.-} In the middle ages 
lish was restricted for some centuries after the conquests < L vala a spade shovel a bakers' pale, a and later, a stable-servant who had charge ol 
of Henry II. John distributed the part of Ireland then w j nn ^J53Mli0TOL1 1 A bakers' shovel or horses, and particularly of the riding-horses or 
^&S3WS^ra&M% peel^ WrZinent for trying the quali- palfreys. A&o^tenpalfrenier. Seo,Monas- 
limits varied at different times. ty of cheese ; a cheese-scoop. E. H. Knight. tery, xxxv. 
Nothing, indeed, but the feuds and weakness of the Irish pale 4 (pal), n. [ME. paly, paley, payly, chaff, pale-hearted (pal har'ted), a. Dispirited; 
tribes enabled the adventurers to hold the districts of < QF paille F. paille. chaff, straw, = Sp. paja cowardly ; craven. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. oo. 
whTt'watthIn?e fort^ = p g- polha = It. paglia, straw, (.'L. palea, chaff, paleichthyological, ; 
J. R. Oreen Hist Eng. People, IV. iv. = Gr. nab], fine meal. Cf. Skt. palala, straw. le-ik*thi-o-loj'i-kal), . [< 
To leap the pale, to overstep the bounds ; be extrava- Hence ult. palleft, palliasse, etc.] If. Chaff. -<c-/.] Of or pertaining to i 
gant. 2. In lot., same as^a^ea (a). paleichthyologist, palaeichthyologist (pa-le- 
Your full feeding wil make you leane, your drinking palea (pa'le-a), n. ; pi. palese (-e). [NL., < L. ik-thi-ol'o-jist), n. [< paleichthyolog-y + 4MJ 
too many healthes will take all health from you, your palea, chaff: see pale*.~] 1. In lot. : (a) One 
leaping tA jxrfe will.cause you looke .pale. of the chaff-like bracts or scales subtending 
The Man in the Home (1609). (flares.) 
Beep, indeed. 
Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared 
To leap the rotten pales of prejudice. 
Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
One who 'is versed in or writes on paleichthy- 
ology. Science, III. 430. 
the individual flowers in the heads of many paleichthyology, palaichthyolpgy (pa-le-ik- 
(6) The scales on the stems thi-ol'o-ji), n. [< Gr. mzAa/of, ancient, + E. tch- 
' 
of certain ferns, (c) The scale-like, usually thyology.] That branch of ichthyology which 
membranaceous organ in the flowers of grass- treats of extinct or fossil fishes. Also paleo- 
pale 1 (pal), 11. t.; pret. and pp. paled, ppr. pal- es which is situated upon a secondary axis in ichthyology, 
ing. [< ME. palen, < OF. paler, patter, < L. the axil of the flowering glume and envelops paleiform(pa'le-i-form), , * L. palea, chaff, 
palare, inclose with pales, < palus, a pale : see the stamens and pistil. It is always bicarinate + forma, form.] Having the appearance ot 
imlfi, n.] 1. To inclose with pales; fence. and is usually bidentate. Also called palet. chaff. Thomas, Med. Diet. 
