PALL

n. v.

12 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Same as Pawl.

2.
n.

An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.

3.
n.

A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).

4.
n.

Same as Pallium. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.

5.
n.

A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

6.
n.

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.

7.
n.

A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

8.
v.

To cloak. [R.] Shak

9.
v.

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.

10.
v.

To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury.

11.
v.

To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

12.
n.

Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.


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