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Source: gcide
Pall \Pall\ (p[add]l), n.
Same as {Pawl}.

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Source: gcide
Pall \Pall\, n. [OE. pal, AS. p[ae]l, from L. pallium cover,
cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.]
1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

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His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
--Spenser.

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

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3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as {Pallium}.

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

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

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5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a
coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.

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Warriors carry the warrior's pall. --Tennyson.

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

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Source: gcide
Pall \Pall\, v. t.
To cloak. [R.] --Shak

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Source: gcide
Pall \Pall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Palled} (p[add]ld); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Palling}.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F.
p[^a]lir 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.

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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin.

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Source: gcide
Pall \Pall\, v. t.
1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless;
to dull; to weaken. --Chaucer.

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Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments.
--Atterbury.

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

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Source: gcide
Pall \Pall\, n.
Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.

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Source: gcide
Pawl \Pawl\, n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. {Pole} a stake.]
(Mach.)
A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine,
adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on
another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to
permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse,
as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of
{Ratchet Wheel}. [Written also {paul}, or {pall}.]

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{Pawl bitt} (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass,
to receive the strain of the pawls.

{Pawl rim} or {Pawl ring} (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring
surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the
pawls to catch in.

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Source: wn
pall
n 1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: {chill}]
2: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: {shroud},
{cerement}, {winding-sheet}, {winding-clothes}]

3: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
[syn: {curtain}, {drape}, {drapery}, {mantle}]
v 1: become less interesting or attractive [syn: {dull}]
2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: {daunt},
{dash}, {scare off}, {frighten off}, {scare away}, {frighten away}, {scare}]

3: cover with a pall
4: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too
much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: {cloy}]
5: cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
6: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: {die},
{become flat}]

7: lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring,
insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
8: get tired of something or somebody [syn: {tire}, {weary}, {fatigue},
{jade}]

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Source: moby thes
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "pall":
allay, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy,
be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, blackout, blanket, bore,
censorship, cerecloth, cerements, cloak, cloth, cloy, coat,
cold water, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl,
cowling, cram, curtain, damper, disgust, drag on, drape, drapery,
engorge, ennui, fatigue, fill, fill up, glut, go on forever, gorge,
graveclothes, guise, hanging, hood, housing, hush-up, irk,
iron curtain, ironbound security, irritate, jade, mantle, mask,
oath of secrecy, official secrecy, overdose, overfeed, overfill,
overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, repression, sate, satiate,
satisfy, saturate, screen, seal of secrecy, security, shelter,
shield, shroud, sicken, slake, smothering, stall, stifling, stodge,
stuff, supersaturate, suppression, surfeit, tire, tire to death,
veil, veil of secrecy, vestment, wear, wear on, weary, wet blanket,
winding sheet, wraps


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