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<A NAME="pale">
<B>pale</B> (1), adjective, <B>paler,</B> <B>palest,</B> verb, <B>paled,</B> <B>paling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>without much color; lacking natural color; whitish. <BR> <I>Ex. When you have been ill, your face is sometimes pale. Dry sherry is usually pale.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>not bright; dim. <BR> <I>Ex. a pale blue, a pale glow from the windows. The bright stars are surrounded by hundreds of pale ones.</I> (SYN) faint, indistinct. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) lacking vigor; feeble; faint. <BR> <I>Ex. a pale policy.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to turn pale; lose color or brilliancy. <BR> <I>Ex. Her face paled at the bad news.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to cause to become pale; dim. <BR> <I>Ex. The glowworm ... 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire (Shakespeare).</I> adv. <B>palely.</B> noun <B>paleness.</B> </DL>
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<B>pale</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>paled,</B> <B>paling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a long, narrow board, pointed at the top, used for fences; picket. <BR> <I>Ex. stakes ... stuck inone by another like pales (Daniel Defoe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) boundary; restriction. <BR> <I>Ex. Murderers are outside the pale of civilized society. The exercise of foreign jurisdiction, within the pale of their own laws (Thomas Jefferson).</I> (SYN) limit. <DD><B> 3. </B>an enclosed place; enclosure. <BR> <I>Ex. I brought all my goods into this pale (Daniel Defoe).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a district or territory within fixed bounds or subject to a particular jurisdiction. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) a fence; barrier. <BR> <I>Ex. It is as if a pale had been built round the British Isles (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Heraldry.) a broad vertical stripe in the middle of a shield, usually occupying one third of its breadth. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to enclose with pales or a fence; fence (in). <BR><I>expr. <B>beyond</B> (or <B>outside</B>) <B>the pale,</B> </I>overstepping the bounds; socially unacceptable; improper. <BR> <I>Ex. His rude behavior at the party was beyond the pale.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>per pale,</B> </I>(Heraldry.) (of the shield) divided by a vertical line through the middle. <BR> <I>Ex. an ordinary per pale invecked.</I> </DL>
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<B>pale-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) the form of <B>paleo-</B> usually used before vowels, as in <I>paleethnology.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palea">
<B>palea, </B>noun, pl. <B>-leae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) <DD><B> 1. </B>one of the inner, scalelike, usually membranous bracts enclosing the stamens and pistil in the flower of grasses. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of the bracts at the base of the individual florets in many composite plants. <DD><B> 3. </B>the scales on the stems of certain ferns. </DL>
<A NAME="paleaceous">
<B>paleaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) <DD><B> 1. </B>furnished or covered with paleae. <DD><B> 2. </B>of the nature or consistency of chaff; chaffy. </DL>
<A NAME="palearctic">
<B>palearctic</B> or <B>Palearctic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the northern division of the Old World (Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, and Asia north of the Himalayas). </DL>
<A NAME="paleethnology">
<B>paleethnology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of ethnology that treats of the earliest or most primitive races of men. </DL>
<A NAME="paleface">
<B>paleface, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white person. The North American Indians are said to have called white people palefaces. <BR> <I>Ex. Where a Paleface comes, a Red man cannot stay (James Fenimore Cooper).</I> </DL>
<B>paleo-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) <DD><B> 1. </B>old; ancient; prehistoric. <BR> <I>Ex. Paleography = ancient writing.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>early or earliest. <BR> <I>Ex. Paleocene = the earliest epoch of the Tertiary period.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a primitive, outmoded, or reactionary form of. <BR> <I>Ex. paleocapitalism = a primitive form of capitalism; paleoconservatism = a primitive form of conservatism.</I> <DD> Also, <B>pale-</B> before certain vowels. Also, <B>palaeo-.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="paleoanthropic">
<B>paleoanthropic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or belonging to the geological period intermediate between protoanthropic and neanthropic. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoanthropologist">
<B>paleoanthropologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in paleoanthropology. <BR> <I>Ex. By utilizing the logic of structure and the logic of evolutionary development, it has been possible for paleoanthropologists to achieve what seems to the uninitiated almost miracles in reconstructing the characteristics of the earlier, extinct forms of mankind (Melville J. Herskovits).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleoanthropology">
<B>paleoanthropology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the early types of human beings, as represented by their fossils and remains of their cultures. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoarctic">
<B>paleoarctic</B> or <B>Paleoarctic, </B>adjective. <B>=palearctic.</B></DL>
<A NAME="paleobiochemistry">
<B>paleobiochemistry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a branch of paleontology that deals with the biochemical constituents of fossil animals and plants. <BR> <I>Ex. In one of the first applications of paleobiochemistry it has been found that hydrocarbon compounds in rocks 3 billion years old may be composed of fossilized chlorophyll (Franklin J. Tobey, Jr.).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleobiology">
<B>paleobiology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants and animals. noun <B>paleobiologist.</B> </DL>
<B>paleobotanical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with paleobotany. </DL>
<A NAME="paleobotanist">
<B>paleobotanist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person skilled in paleobotany. <BR> <I>Ex. Fossil plants have suffered much alteration and the paleobotanist ... is from the first concerned with the details of preservation and the use of unpromising material (Tom. M. Harris).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleobotany">
<B>paleobotany, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants. </DL>
<A NAME="paleocapitalism">
<B>paleocapitalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> capitalism based on a return to earlier practices and forms of free-market economy. </DL>
<A NAME="paleocene">
<B>Paleocene, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a geological epoch, the earliest of the Tertiary period of the Cenozoic era, before the Eocene, during which shallow inland seas drained and the first primates appeared. <DD><B> 2. </B>the rocks formed during this epoch. <DD><I>adj. </I> of this epoch or its rocks. </DL>
<A NAME="paleochronology">
<B>paleochronology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the dating of fossil animals and plants, asby counting the ridges on fossil shells and corals. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoclimate">
<B>paleoclimate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a prehistoric climate. <BR> <I>Ex. A new independent method has been developed to study paleoclimates based on deep ice cores from the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland (W. Dansgaard).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleoclimatology">
<B>paleoclimatology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the climate of prehistoric times. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoconservatism">
<B>paleoconservatism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> extreme or reactionary form of conservatism. </DL>
<A NAME="paleocortex">
<B>paleocortex, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the older portion of the cortex of the human brain, having to do with the sense of smell. </DL>
<A NAME="paleocrystic">
<B>paleocrystic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> consisting of or containing ice supposed to have remained frozen since early ages. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoecological">
<B>paleoecological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with paleoecology. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoecologist">
<B>paleoecologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in paleoecology. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoecology">
<B>paleoecology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the relationship of living things to environment and each other in prehistoric times; the ecology of prehistoric life. </DL>
<A NAME="paleofauna">
<B>paleofauna, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nas,</B> <B>-nae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fossil fauna of a geological formation or period. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoflora">
<B>paleoflora, </B>noun, pl. <B>-floras,</B> <B>-florae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fossil flora of a geological formation or period. </DL>
<B>Paleogene, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the lower division of the Tertiary period; Eogene. <DD><I>adj. </I> or of having to do with this division or its rocks. </DL>
<A NAME="paleogenetics">
<B>paleogenetics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the genetics of fossil animals and plants. </DL>
<B>paleography, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>ancient writing or ancient forms of writing. <DD><B> 2. </B>the study of ancient writings to determine the dates, origins, meanings, etc. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoichthyologist">
<B>paleoichthyologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in paleoichthyology. </DL>
<A NAME="paleoichthyology">
<B>paleoichthyology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of ichthyology that deals with fossil fishes. Also, <B>paleichthyology.</B> </DL>
