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.
Pale, v. t. 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.
||Pa"le*a (?), n.; pl. PaleÊ (-). [L., chaff.]
1. (Bot.) (a) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. (b) One of the
chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound
flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
2. (Zoˆl.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as
in the turkey; a dewlap.
Pa`le*a"ceous (?), a. [L. palea chaff.] (Bot.) Chaffy; resembling or
consisting of paleÊ, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous
receptacle.
Pa`le*arc"tic (?), a. [Paleo- + arctic.] Belonging to a region of the
earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and
all temperate Asia.
Paled (?), a. [See 5th Pale.] 1. Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled
part per part." Spenser.