| archaic |
| 1. n. (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the W | |
| 2. n. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens. | |
| 3. adj. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated. | |
| 4. adj. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity. | |
| 5. adj. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period | |
| pale |
| 1. adj. Light in color. | |
| I have pale yellow wallpaper. | |
| She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight. | |
| 2. adj. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). | |
| His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death. | |
| 3. adj. Feeble, faint. | |
| He is but a pale shadow of his former self. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To become insignificant. | |
| 6. v. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor. | |
| 8. n. A wooden stake; a picket. | |
| 9. n. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade. | |
| 10. n. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of). | |
| 11. n. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale. | |
| 12. n. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield. | |
| 13. n. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction. | |
| 14. n. (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction. | |
| 15. n. (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries). | |
| 16. n. (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live. | |
| 17. n. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority. | |
| 18. n. A cheese scoop.P. L. Simmonds, A Dictionary of Trade Products, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, London: Routledge, 1858, p. 272 | |
| 19. n. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. | |
| 20. v. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off. | |
| bleak |
| 1. adj. Without color; pale; pallid. | |
| 2. adj. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. | |
| A bleak and bare rock. | |
| They escaped across the bleak landscape. | |
| A bleak, crater-pocked moonscape. | |
| We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains. | |
| 3. adj. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate. | |
| Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce. | |
| A bleak future is in store for you. | |
| The news is bleak. | |
| The survey paints a bleak picture. | |
| 4. n. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae. | |
