Pall

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Same as Pawl.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To cloak. [R.] Shak

Part of speech: verb (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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.