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noun

Paling n.

Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. "They moved within the paling of order and decorum."

The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. (Obs.)

Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. (Eng.)

verb

Pale v. t. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. "The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire."

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."

Pale v. i. (past & past part. paled; pres. part. paling) To turn pale; to lose color or luster. "Apt to pale at a trodden worm."

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"Paling" Quotes from Famous Books

... the 15th (Scottish) Division climbed over their parapets at six-thirty, and saw the open ground before them, and the dusky, paling sky above them, and broken wire in front of the enemy's churned-up trenches; and through the smoke, faintly, and far away, three and a half miles away, the ghostly outline of the "Tower Bridge" of Loos, which was their goal. For an hour there were ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... repeated the Governor, paling, and a man behind him took up the words and said them over with a fine ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

... land stretched off behind it, reaching out even into the Mong. And the Mong itself—with its cool sharp glitter in the stirring wind, and the swash of its blue waves at the very foot of the little paling about the house; its white-sailed craft, ...

— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner

... step farther, her dark face paling and growing set—her large eyes seeming to darken and dilate—her lips setting themselves in a tense line. "Well?" ...

— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming

... more than a series of walks to business. But those were the words that came to him, catching her adorable freshness of body and mind, and determining to keep it untouched by dusty old pantaloons such as he saw himself. Nan stood for a minute paling out under his eyes, and then drew away from him and left the room, her braid-crowned head high. She had to meet him at dinner, and he knew she had cried and Aunt Anne knew it and was hard on her over the little things she could reprove her for, in a silky, affectionate ...

— Old Crow • Alice Brown

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