'Pall' definitions:

Definition of 'pall'

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noun
A sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall]
noun
Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes]
noun
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall]
verb
Become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull]
verb
Cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare]
verb
Cover with a pall
verb
Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall]
verb
Cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
verb
Lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: die, pall, become flat]
verb
Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
verb
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]

Definition of 'Pall'

From: 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pall'

From: GCIDE
  • Pall \Pall\ (p[add]l), n. Same as Pawl. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pall'

From: 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. [1913 Webster]
  • His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Esther viii. 15). [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium. [1913 Webster]
  • About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. [1913 Webster]
  • Warriors carry the warrior's pall. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pall'

From: GCIDE
  • Pall \Pall\, v. t.
  • 1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pall'

From: GCIDE
  • Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pall'

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  • Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'pall'

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  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'pall'

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