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them to lie inactive. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.

Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

. Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration. Paley.

Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoön has been found.

display the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress. Cf. Impalement.

Capable of being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage. Paley. .

To become pale through disease or absence of light.

Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease. Dunglison.

t order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks. [Written also Eurypterida.]

Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. [R.] "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.] Paley.

a lie or story. Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages. Paley.

d now that ye fail not to do this. Ezra iv. 22. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. Shak.

eful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. -- Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.

Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak.

The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.

A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.

al of the Weasel family (Mustela or Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.

Of a straw color; greenish yellow. [Obs.] A little insect of a festucine or pale green. Sir T. Browne.

on of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever. An envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation. Shak. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Shak. Brain fever, Continued fever, etc. See under Brain, Continued, etc. -- Fever and ague, a form of fever recurring in paroxysms which are preceded…