Definitions for the word "Pall" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Same as Pawl.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Same as Pallium.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To cloak.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. a.
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. t.
To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
Nausea.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
1 cloth spread over a coffin etc. 2 shoulder-band with pendants, worn as an ecclesiastical vestment and sign of authority. 3 dark covering (pall of darkness). [latin pallium cloak]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
14. v.
(often foll. By on) become uninteresting (to). [from *appal]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. slang
to stop; “PALL that,” spoken authoritatively, means, cease what
you are doing. From PALL, a small instrument which is used to stop the
windlass or capstan at sea. When a man says, “I am PALLED,” he
means he cannot or dare not say any more. A sailor, on receiving any
extraordinary intelligence, will say, “You PALL me,” _i.e._, you
confound me. Most likely from the order frequently given on board ship,
“Ease and PALL.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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