Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mall"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mall \Mall\ (m[add]l; 277), n. [Written also {maul}.] [OE.
malle, F. mail, L. malleus. Cf. {Malleus}.]
1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything
with force; a maul. --Addison.
2. A heavy blow. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See
{Pall-mall}. --Cotton.
4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public
walk; a level shaded walk.
Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and
planted with elms; and these convenient and
frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
--Southey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mall \Mall\ (m[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Malled} (m[add]ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Malling}.] [Cf. OF. mailler. See {Mall}
beetle, and cf. {Malleate}.]
To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise;
to maul.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mall \Mall\ (m[a^]l), n. [LL. mallum a public assembly; cf. OHG.
mahal assembly, transaction; akin to AS. m[ae][eth]el,
me[eth]el, assembly, m[=ae]lan to speak, Goth. ma[thorn]l
market place.]
Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables
of a state for the transaction of public business, such
meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.
Hence:
(a) A court of justice.
(b) A place where justice is administered.
(c) A place where public meetings are held.
Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or
malls, ceased. --Milman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maul \Maul\, n. [See {Mall} a hammer.]
A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also {mall}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mall
n 1: a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: {promenade}]
2: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully
landscaped complex of shops representing leading
merchandisers; a modern version of the traditional
marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house";
"they spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn: {plaza},
{center}, {shopping mall}, {shopping center}]
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