palen

present singular third person palens · participle present palening · participle past palened · past palened

1. ambitransitiverareTo make or become pale.

   […] the brown portion gradually palened towards the postero-interior margin, with an inconspicuous paler median streak.

   1932, Transactions, volumes 22-23, page 279

   1 more example

   Marion dumped Alice in the wheelbarrow with slices of honeybread between dock leaves on her lap, and wheeled it down the garden, past the beans, darkening as they ripened, past the peas, palening as they ripened, past the neat rows of onions and cabbages.

   1998, Ann Baer, Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman, page 114

plural Palens

1. A surname.