Of the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, or a small hole in a hollow object; designating…

Pale; also (by confusion of forms) black, dark.

Pale, pallid, wan: implying deficiency or loss of colour, esp. of the ruddy hue of health, or of the full green of vegetation; of a sickly hue: thus…

Of colour, etc.: Dull, pale, wan, sombre. Obsolete exc. archaic.

Pale.

Somewhat pale.

Ash-coloured, ashen, deadly pale.

Comb.: wearish-coloured, sickly-hued, pale.

Wan, pallid.

Having the nature or quality of whey; like or resembling whey in consistence, colour, or other quality; watery, thin; palish.

Pale, pallid, wan; deficient in colour, esp. deficient in the ruddy bloom of health, or the full green of vegetation; of a sickly hue: also used like…

Pale; somewhat pale.

(Influenced by ghost, n.: cf. quot. 1711.) Like a spectre, or a dead body; death-like, pale, wan. Of light: Lurid.

Somewhat blank; hence (obsolete) whitish, palish.

Of a sickly hue; pale, wan.

Enfeebled, weakened; impaired. Now archaic and poetic.

Made ashy or ash-coloured.

Pale and dismal in colour; wan and sallow; ghastly of hue. Said e.g. of the sickly pallor of the skin in disease, or of the aspect of things when…

Transferred and figurative uses. Having the character of the moon as opposed to that of the sun; not warmly bright; pale, pallid.

Ash-coloured, whitish-grey, deadly pale.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2.)

Resembling wax in colour or consistence; (of a quality) like that of wax. Often said of boiled potatoes that have not become ‘mealy’.

Pale; sickly; thin; feeble.