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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pale  \Pale\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Paled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Paling}.] 
  To  turn  pale;  to  lose  color  or  luster.  --Whittier. 
 
  Apt  to  pale  at  a  trodden  worm.  --Mrs. 
  Browning. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Paling  \Pal"ing\,  n. 
  1.  Pales,  in  general;  a  fence  formed  with  pales  or  pickets;  a 
  limit;  an  inclosure. 
 
  They  moved  within  the  paling  of  order  and  decorum. 
  --De  Quincey. 
 
  2.  The  act  of  placing  pales  or  stripes  on  cloth;  also  the 
  stripes  themselves.  [Obs.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  {Paling  board},  one  of  the  slabs  sawed  from  the  sides  of  a 
  log  to  fit  it  to  be  sawed  into  boards.  [Eng.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  paling 
  adj  :  losing  color;  "the  paling  photographs"  [syn:  {fading}] 
  n  :  a  fence  made  of  upright  pickets  [syn:  {picket  fence}] 




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