pal, pal up, chum up
(verb) become friends; act friendly towards
Source: WordNet® 3.1
palling
present participle of pall
palling
present participle of pal
• lapling
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
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
