pal, pal up, chum up
(verb) become friends; act friendly towards
Source: WordNet® 3.1
palled
simple past tense and past participle of pall
palled
simple past tense and past participle of pal
Source: Wiktionary
Pal, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. [Slang]
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
30 April 2024
(verb) treat carefully; “He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon”; “He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
