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pall

1 [pawl]

–noun

1.	a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.

a coffin.

3.	anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom.

Ecclesiastical.

a.	pallium (def. 2b).

b.	a linen cloth or a square cloth-covered piece of cardboard used to cover a chalice.

5.	Heraldry. pairle.

6.	Archaic. a cloth spread upon an altar; corporal.

7.	Archaic. a garment, esp. a robe, cloak, or the like.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to cover with or as with a pall.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE pæll pope's pallium < L pallium cloak

Related forms:

pall-like, adjective

Synonyms:
3. shadow, melancholy, oppression.

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pall

2 [pawl]

–verb (used without object)

1.	to have a wearying or tiresome effect (usually fol. by on or upon).

2.	to become distasteful or unpleasant.

3.	to become satiated or cloyed with something.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to satiate or cloy.

5.	to make dull, distasteful, or unpleasant.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME pallen; aph. var. of appall

Synonyms:
4. glut, sate, surfeit.

pairle

[pairl, perl]

–noun Heraldry.

a device representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium, consisting of a broad Y-shaped form covered with crosses.

Also called pall.

Origin:
< F, prob. alter. of OF paile pall ¹ ;

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pall¹ (pôl)

A cover for a coffin, bier, or tomb, often made of black, purple, or white velvet.
A coffin, especially one being carried to a grave or tomb.
1. A covering that darkens or obscures: a pall of smoke over the city.
2. A gloomy effect or atmosphere: "A pall of depressed indifference hung over Petrograd during February and March 1916" (W. Bruce Lincoln).
3. A linen cloth or a square of cardboard faced with cloth used to cover the chalice.
4. See pallium.
Ecclesiastical
1. A linen cloth or a square of cardboard faced with cloth used to cover the chalice.
2. See pallium.

tr.v. palled, pall·ing, palls
To cover with or as if with a pall.

[Middle English pal, from Old English pæll, cloak, covering, from Latin pallium.]

pall² (pôl)

v. palled, pall·ing, palls

v. intr.

To become insipid, boring, or wearisome.
To have a dulling, wearisome, or boring effect.
To become cloyed or satiated.

v. tr.

To cloy; satiate.
To make vapid or wearisome.

[Middle English pallen, to grow feeble, probably short for appallen; see appall.]

pal·li·um (pāl'ē-əm)

n. pl. pal·li·ums or pal·li·a (pāl'ē-ə)

A cloak or mantle worn by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Ecclesiastical A vestment worn by the pope and conferred by him on archbishops and sometimes on bishops. Also called pall¹.
1. The mantle of gray matter forming the cerebral cortex.
2. The mantle of a mollusk, brachiopod, or bird.

[Latin.]

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Pall

Pall\, n. Same as Pawl.

Pall

Pall\, n. [OE. pal, AS. p[ae]l, 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.) 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.) 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.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

Pall

Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak

Pall

Pall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled; p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. p[^a]lir to grow pale. Cf. Appall, Pale, a.] 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

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

Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.

Language Translation for : pall

Spanish: paño mortuorio; cortina, manto,

German: das Bahr- bzw. Leichentuchtuch, die Wolke,

Japanese: 棺おおい

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pall (n.)

O.E. pæll "rich cloth, cloak, altar cloth," from L. pallium "cloak, covering," in Tertullian, the garment worn by Christians instead of the Roman toga; related to pallo "robe, cloak," palla "long upper garment of Roman women," perhaps from the root of pellis "skin." Notion of "cloth spread over a coffin" (c.1440) led to fig. sense of "dark, gloomy mood" (1742).

pall (v.)

"become tiresome," 1700, from M.E. pallen "to become faint, fail in strength" (1390), aphetic form of appallen "to dismay, fill with horror or disgust" (see appall).

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