paleous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin palea (“chaff”) + -ous.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
paleous (comparative more paleous, superlative most paleous)
- chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- this attraction have we tried in straws and paleous bodies
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paleous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)