Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pall"
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) 1.7 (wn)
pall
n 1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: {chill}]
2: burial garment 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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