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pall
1 [pawl]
–noun
| 1. | a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb. |
| 2. | a coffin. |
| 3. | anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom. |
| 4. | Ecclesiastical.
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| 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
bef. 900; ME; OE pæll pope's pallium < L pallium cloak

Related forms:
pall-like, adjective
Synonyms:
3. shadow, melancholy, oppression.
3. shadow, melancholy, oppression.
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pall 1 (pôl) n.
To cover with or as if with a pall. [Middle English pal, from Old English pæll, cloak, covering, from Latin pallium.] |
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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.] --ShakPall
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.
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Language Translation for : pall
Spanish:
paño mortuorio; cortina, manto,
German:
das Bahr- bzw. Leichentuchtuch, die Wolke,
Japanese:
棺おおい
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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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