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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MALL, n. maul. [L. malleus.]
1. A large heavy wooden beetle; an instrument for driving any thing with force.
2. A blow.
MALL, n. mal. A public walk; a level shaded walk.
MALL, v.t. maul. To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: promenade, mall]
2: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn: plaza, mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: short for obsolete pall-mall mallet used in pall-mall Date: 1644 1. an alley used for pall-mall 2. [The Mall, promenade in London, originally a pall-mall alley] a. a usually public area often set with shade trees and designed as a promenade or as a pedestrian walk b. a usually paved or grassy strip between two roadways 3. a. an urban shopping area featuring a variety of shops surrounding a usually open-air concourse reserved for pedestrian traffic b. a usually large suburban building or group of buildings containing various shops with associated passageways

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a sheltered walk or promenade. 2 an enclosed shopping precinct. 3 hist. a = PALL-MALL. b an alley used for this. Etymology: var. of MAUL: applied to The Mall in London (orig. a pall-mall alley)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mall Mall (m[add]l; 277), n. [Written also maul.] [OE. malle, F. mail, L. malleus. Cf. Malleus.] 1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. --Addison. 2. A heavy blow. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. --Cotton. 4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk. Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall. --Southey.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mall Mall (m[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malled (m[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Malling.] [Cf. OF. mailler. See Mall beetle, and cf. Malleate.] To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mall Mall (m[a^]l), n. [LL. mallum a public assembly; cf. OHG. mahal assembly, transaction; akin to AS. m[ae][eth]el, me[eth]el, assembly, m[=ae]lan to speak, Goth. ma[thorn]l market place.] Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence: (a) A court of justice. (b) A place where justice is administered. (c) A place where public meetings are held. Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased. --Milman.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Maul Maul, n. [See Mall a hammer.] A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also mall.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(malls) A mall is a very large enclosed shopping area. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. [Written also Maul.] Beetle, heavy mallet. II. v. a. [Written also Maul.] Beat, bruise. III. n. 1. Public walk, shaded walk. 2. Court, pleading-house.

Moby Thesaurus

alameda, beaten path, beaten track, berm, bicycle path, boardwalk, bridle path, catwalk, esplanade, fastwalk, foot pavement, footpath, footway, garden path, groove, hiking trail, parade, path, pathway, prado, promenade, public walk, run, runway, rut, sidewalk, towing path, towpath, track, trail, trottoir, walk, walkway