PALL

curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall

(noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes

(noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

chill, pall

(noun) a sudden numbing dread

tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade

(verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; “I’m so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food”

pall

(verb) lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); “the course palled on her”

pall, dull

(verb) become less interesting or attractive

die, pall, become flat

(verb) lose sparkle or bouquet; “wine and beer can pall”

pall

(verb) cause to become flat; “pall the beer”

cloy, pall

(verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; “Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite”

pall

(verb) cover with a pall

daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare

(verb) cause to lose courage; “dashed by the refusal”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

pall (plural palls)

Senses relating to cloth.

(archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.

A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.

(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.

(Christianity, obsolete) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).

Senses relating to clothing.

(archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.

(figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc, or a feeling of fear or gloom.

(Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).

(heraldic charge) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y charged with crosses.

Synonyms: cross-pall, pairle

Etymology 2

Verb

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

(transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.

Etymology 3

Verb

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

(transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.

(intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

Etymology 4

Noun

pall (plural palls)

(obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.

Anagrams

• LLAP, Llap

Source: Wiktionary

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Pall, n.

Definition: Same as Pawl.

Pall, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.)

Definition: 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.)

Definition: A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

Pall, v. t.

Definition: To cloak. [R.] Shak

Pall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled; p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] Etym: [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. pâlir to grow pale. Cf. Appall, Pale, a.]

Definition: 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, 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.

Pall, n.

Definition: Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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