PALLING

PAL

pal, pal up, chum up

(verb) become friends; act friendly towards

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

palling

present participle of pall

Etymology 2

Verb

palling

present participle of pal

Anagrams

• lapling

Source: Wiktionary

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PAL

Pal, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Definition: A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. [Slang]

PALL

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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