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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
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
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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