Pall (?), n.
Same as Pawl.
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Pall, n. [OE. pal, AS. pael, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.]
1.
An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
Spenser.
2.
A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
[Obs.]
Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
3. R. C. Ch.
Same as Pallium.
About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York.
Fuller.
4. Her.
A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
5.
A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
Warriors carry the warrior's pall.
Tennyson.
6. Eccl.
A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
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Pall, v. t.
To cloak.
[R.]
Shak
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Pall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. palir to grow pale. Cf. Appall, Pale, a.]
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
Addisin.
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Pall, v. t.
1.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
Chaucer.
Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments.
Atterbury.
2.
To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
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Pall, n.
Nausea.
[Obs.]
Shaftesbury.
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