paleness

[Eng. pale, a.; -ne .] The quality or state of being palo or wanting in color; wanne , pallor; deficiency or want of color or freshne ; dimne ; absence of luster or brilliancy. "To livid palene turns the glowing red." Dryden: Palamon and Arcite, i. 467. păl-ě-ō-lạ ( pl. păl-ě-ō-læ), s. [Dimin. from palea (q. v.).1 Bot . ( pl .): Richard's name for the scales in the inflorescence of gra es. pāl-ě-ous, a. [Lat. palea =chaff.] Like chaff; chaffy, husky. "This attraction we tried in straws and paleous bodies." -Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. ii., ch. 1v. Pa-ler-mi-tan, a. & s . [See def.] A. As adj .: Of or belonging to Palermo or its inhabitants. B. As subst.: A native or inhabitant of Palermo, Pā-lēş, s . [The Roman godde of shepherds and pasturage.] Astron.: [ASTEROID, 49.] Păl-es-tine, s. [Lat. Palæstina ; Gr. Palais tinē , from Heb. petesheth.] Geography : 1. Philistia, the long, broad strip of maritime plain inhabited by the Philistines (q. v.), the Syria Palais tina of the Greeks. Milton uses the word in this sense (P. L. , i. 465; Nativ ., 199; Sam . Agon ., 144, 1,099), and it is so used in the A. V. 2. The whole country of Israel; the Holy-land. Palestine bush-babbler, s. Ornith.: Argya squamiceps . Palestine-soup, s . A soup made from Jerusalem artichokes. The name is based on a misconception, for the word Jerusalem has no connection with the Holy City, but is a corruption of the Italian girasole . [ARTICHOKE,.]