| Pronunciation: | | 'peyling
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| Matching Terms: | | palindrome, palindromic, palindromic sequence, palindromist, palingenesia, palingenesis, palingenetic, palinode, palinodial, palinody, palinuridae, palinurus
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- [n] a fence made of upright pickets
- [adj] losing color; "the paling photographs"
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| | Synonyms: | | decreasing, fading, picket fence |
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| | See Also: | | fence, fencing, pale, picket |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pal"ing\, n.
1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a
limit; an inclosure.
They moved within the paling of order and decorum.
--De Quincey.
2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the
stripes themselves. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Paling board}, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a
log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]
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