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Webster 1913 Edition

Pall

Pall

(pa̤l)
,
Noun.
Same as
Pawl
.

Pall

,
Noun.
[OE.
pal
, AS.
pæl
, 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.

Pall

,
Verb.
T.
To cloak.
[R.]
Shak

Pall

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Palled
(pa̤ld)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Palling
.]
[Either shortened fr.
appall
, or fr. F.
pâlir
to grow pale. Cf.
Appall
,
Pale
,
Adj.
]
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.

Pall

,
Verb.
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
.

Pall

,
Noun.
Nausea.
[Obs.]
Shaftesbury.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pall

PALL

,
Noun.
[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

,
Noun.
In heraldry, a figure like the Greek.

PALL

,
Verb.
T.
To cloke; to cover or invest.

PALL

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
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.

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