Pall , n. Nausea. [Obs.]
Shaftesbury.
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.
Pall , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Palling.]
[Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. pâlir 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.
Pall , v. t. To cloak. [R.]
Shak
Pall , n. [OE. pal, AS. pæl, 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.
Pall (?), n. Same as Pawl.
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