Pall

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Nausea.

II. Pall ·vt To Cloak.

III. Pall ·noun An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

IV. Pall ·noun ·same·as Pawl.

V. Pall ·noun ·same·as Pallium.

VI. Pall ·noun A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.

VII. Pall ·vt To Satiate; to Cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

VIII. Pall ·noun A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

IX. Pall ·noun A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side;

— used to put over the chalice.

X. Pall ·noun A large cloth, ·esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.

XI. Pall ·adj To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.

XII. Pall ·vt To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to Dull; to Weaken.

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