Pall

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pall \Pall\ (p[add]l), n.
     Same as {Pawl}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pall \Pall\, v. t.
     To cloak. [R.] --Shak
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pall \Pall\, n.
     Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [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