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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

... little distance and seemed to consult, grinning and snapping their teeth from time to time at the spaniel, who cowered almost into the ground, whimpering piteously, while her master leaned upon his paling and laughed aloud, an insult to which the wolves responded by throwing back their heads and uttering howls like those of a dog baying the moon. Then suddenly leaping into the bushes they disappeared as quickly as ...

— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin

... stifle a sigh as she gazed at those rosy checks, those sparkling eyes, that life so full of the rich future. She recalled a time when she was thus, when grief glided over her cheeks without paling them, when tears dried as they left her eyes; she also had had her happy, careless days, her dreams ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... the exception of one that seemed to sparkle brightly over the shaft of his former fortunes, were slowly paling. A burden seemed to have fallen from his square shoulders as he stepped out sturdily into the morning air. He had already forgotten the lonely man behind him, for he was thinking only of his wife and daughter. And at the ...

— A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready • Bret Harte

... His anxious face, paling beneath the tropic bronze of twenty years' ocean wanderings, betrayed his feelings to the two natives who were now pulling the boat with all their strength to gain the village, and one—Maora, his wife's brother, ...

— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke

... four new churches, proclaiming four different sects; religion suited to all customers. These wooden churches or meeting-houses are all new, all painted white, or perhaps a bright red. Hard by is a tavern with a green paling, as clean and as new as the churches, and there are also various smart stores and neat dwelling-houses; all new, all wooden, all clean, and all ornamented with slight Grecian pillars. The whole has a cheerful, trim, and flourishing ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca

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