Pall

Definition of Pall

Pronunciation: pạld

n.	1.	Same as Pawl.
	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.
	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.
v. t.	1.	To cloak.
v. i.	1.	To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. [imp. & p. p. Palled (pạld); p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. - Addisin.
v. t.	1.	To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. - Atterbury.
	2.	To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
n.	1.	Nausea.

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