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Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer. Speechless he stood and pale. Milton. They are not of complexion red or pale. T. Randolph.

The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleæ, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled part per part." Spenser.

An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palæechini. [Written also Palæechinoidea.]

A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.

prehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]

In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily. Thackeray.

A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings. [Written also palampore, palampoor, etc.] De Colange.

The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness. The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. Pope.

A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography. [Written also palæo-.]

One versed in paleobotany.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Same as Merostomata. [Written also Palæocarida.]

A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.

Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. [Written also palæogæan.]

An ancient manuscript.