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To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled. Byron.

To place pales between or among; to separate by pales.

Pale, like a sick girl. Shak.

To give forth a play of colors, like the opal.

light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent.

Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

Having one or more sepals.

A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

continuance; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.

A native of Acadie. Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

ations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

Accordance. [R.] Paley.

The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [R.] Paley.

regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

arent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

al ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

t of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

thing common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.