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Look up: Pale

  1. PALE
    acronym: Palaeoclimate from Arctic Lakes and Estuaries (PAGES)
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  2. pale
    [adj] - (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness 2. [adj] - not full or rich 3. [adj] - very light colored 4. [adj] - lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness 5. [adj] - abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress 6. [v] - turn pale, as if in fear
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Pale
    Pale adjective [ Compar. Paler ; superl. Palest .] [ French pâle , from pâlir to turn pale, Latin pallere to be o... look pale. Confer Appall , Fallow...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/6

  4. Pale
    Pale noun Paleness; pallor. [ R.] Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/6

  5. Pale
    Pale intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Paled ; present participle & verbal noun Paling .] To turn pale; to lose color or luster. Whittier. « Apt to pale at a trodden worm.» Mrs. Browning.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/6

  6. Pale
    Pale transitive verb To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. « The glow...worm shows the matin to be near, And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.» Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/6

  7. Pale
    Pale noun [ French pal , from Latin palus : confer Dutch paal . See Pol... a stake, and lst Pallet .] 1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/6

  8. Pale
    Pale transitive verb To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. « [ Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters.» Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/6

  9. pale
    pallid adjective lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; `a pale rendition of the aria`; `pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender`; `a pallid performance`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. pale
    pallid adjective abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; `the pallid face of the invalid`; `her wan face suddenly flushed`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  11. pale
    pallid adjective (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; `the pale light of a half moon`; `a pale sun`; `the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on ...
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  12. pale
    adjective not full or rich; `high, pale, pure and lovely song`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  13. pale
    adjective very light colored; highly diluted with white; `pale seagreen`; `pale blue eyes`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  14. Pale
    • (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. • (n.) A cheese scoop. • (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. pale
    (from the article `heraldry`) The honourable ordinaries and subordinaries may be generally agreed as numbering about 20. Among them are: the chief, being the top third of the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/7

  16. pale
    (from Latin palus, `stake`), district separated from the surrounding country by defined boundaries or distinguished by a different administrative and ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/7

  17. Pale
    In heraldry, a pale is the first and simplest kind of ordinary. It is bounded by two vertical lines at equal distances from the sides of the escutcheon, of which it encloses one third.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  18. Pale
    Pale, in Irish history, that district of indefinite and varying limits around Dublin, in which English law prevailed. The term was first used in the 14th cent. to designate what had previously been called English land. Outlying districts were styled the marches, or border lands. In the time of Henry...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0

  19. Pale
    (album) `Pale` is the second album by Toad the Wet Sprocket. Recorded independently in 1989 for roughly $6000, the band negotiated a deal with Columbia Records to release this without any alterations, along with their 1988 release "Bread And Circus", "Pale" was rele...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale

  20. Pale
    (heraldry) A `pale` is a term used in heraldic blazon and vexillology to describe a charge on a coat of arms (or flag), that takes the form of a band running vertically down the center of the shield. Writers broadly agree that the width of the pale ranges from about one-fifth to about one-thi...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale

  21. Pale
    (Greyhawk) In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the `Pale`, properly known as the `Theocracy of the Pale`, is a political state situated in the Old Aerdy West region of the Flanaess, west of the Rakers. History: At the heigh...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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