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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PALL, n. [L. pallium.]
1. A cloke; a mantle of state.
2. The mantle of an archbishop.
3. The cloth thrown over a dead body at funerals.
PALL, n. In heraldry, a figure like the Greek.
PALL, v.t. To cloke; to cover or invest.
PALL, v.i. [Gr. old.]
1. To become vapid; to lose strength, life, spirit or taste; to become insipid; as, the liquor palls.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye and palls upon the sense.
PALL, v.t. To make vapid or insipid.
Reason and reflection--blunt the edge of the keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments.
1. To make spiritless; to dispirit; to depress.
The more we raise our love,
The more we pall and cool and kill his ardor.
2. To weaken; to impair; as, to pall fortune.
3. To cloy; as the palled appetite.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall]
2: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes]
3: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall] v
1: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull]
2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, 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, pall]
5: cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
6: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: die, pall, become flat]
7: lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
8: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English, short for appallen to become pale — more at appall Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to lose strength or effectiveness 2. to lose in interest or attraction <his humor began to pall on us> 3. dwindle <our enthusiasm soon palled> transitive verb 1. to cause to become insipid 2. to deprive of pleasure in something by satiating Synonyms: see satiate II. noun Etymology: Middle English, cloak, mantle, from Old English pæll, from Latin pallium Date: 14th century 1. pallium 1a 2. a. a square of linen usually stiffened with cardboard that is used to cover the chalice b. (1) a heavy cloth draped over a coffin (2) a coffin especially when holding a body 3. a. something that covers or conceals; especially an overspreading element that produces an effect of gloom <a pall of thick black smoke> <a pall of suspicion> b. a feeling of gloom <his absence cast a pall over the celebration> III. transitive verb Date: 15th century to cover with a pall ; drape

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. 2 a shoulder-band with pendants, worn as an ecclesiastical vestment and sign of authority. 3 a dark covering (a pall of darkness; a pall of smoke). 4 Heraldry a Y-shaped bearing charged with crosses representing the front of an ecclesiastical pall. Etymology: OE pæll, f. L pallium cloak 2. v. 1 intr. (often foll. by on) become uninteresting (to). 2 tr. satiate, cloy. Etymology: ME, f. APPAL

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pall Pall, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pall Pall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled; 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. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pall 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pall Pall, n. Same as Pawl.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pall Pall, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. Pawl rim or ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(palls, palled) 1. If something palls, it becomes less interesting or less enjoyable after a period of time. Already the allure of meals in restaurants had begun to pall. VERB: no cont, V 2. If a pall of smoke hangs over a place, there is a thick cloud of smoke above it. A pall of oily black smoke drifted over the cliff-top. N-COUNT: usu N of n 3. If something unpleasant casts a pall over an event or occasion, it makes it less enjoyable than it should be. The unrest has cast a pall over what is usually a day of national rejoicing... PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Cloak, mantle, outer garment. 2. Pallium, archbishop's scarf. 3. [Written also Pawl and Paul.] Detent, click. II. v. a. 1. Make vapid or insipid. 2. Satiate, cloy, surfeit, sate, glut, gorge, fill to repletion. 3. Dispirit, depress, discourage, dishearten, deject. 4. Weaken, impair, damage. 5. Cloak, cover, shroud, invest. III. v. n. Become insipid, grow tasteless, become vapid.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A companion. One who generally accompanies another, or who commit robberies together.

Moby Thesaurus

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