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pall |
8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pall \Pall\, n. Same as {Pawl}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pawl \Pawl\, n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf {Pole} a stake.] (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click or detent. See Illust. of {Ratchet Wheel}. [Written also {paul}, or {pall}.] {Pawl bitt} (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. {Pawl rim} or {ring} (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pall n 1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: {chill}] 2: something in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: {shroud}, {cerement}, {winding-sheet}, {winding-clothes}] 3: hanging cloth used as a blind [syn: {curtain}, {drape}, {drapery}, {mantle}] v 1: become less interesting or attractive [syn: {dull}] 2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: {daunt}, {dash}, {scare off}, {frighten off}, {scare away}, {frighten away}, {scare}] 3: cover with a pall 4: cause surfeit through excess, of something that was initially pleasing: "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: {cloy}] 5: cause to become flat, of beer or wine 6: lose sparkle or bouquet, as of wine or beer; pall" is an obsolete word [syn: {die}, {become flat}] 7: lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her" 8: get tired of something or somebody [syn: {tire}, {weary}, {fatigue}, {jade}]
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