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

used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.

An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.

g, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.

Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.

To cover or coat with palladium. [R.]

A large South African antelope (Æpyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.

Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.

One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.

aining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve. Pallial chamber (Zoöl.), the cavity inclosed by the mantle. -- Pallial sinus (Zoöl.), an inwar…

A dress; a robe. [Obs.] Shak.

A born beggar; a vagabond. [Obs.] Halliwell.

See Paillasse.

To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.

The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.

Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

Palliative; extenuating.