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Pronunciation : Pall
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: Same as Pawl.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pall
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. pal, AS. p?l, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.]
Definition : 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pall
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To cloak. [R.] Shak

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pall
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. p?lir to grow pale. Cf. Appall, Pale, a.]
Definition : Defn: 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.

i. [imp. & p. p. Palled; p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pall
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pall
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913