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A poisonous nitrogenous base (C6H10N2) obtained indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.

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.

One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

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.

A comprehensive 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.