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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pall \Pall\, v. t.
   To cloak. [R.] --Shak

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.

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.
   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\, n.
   Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.

Source : WordNet®

pall
     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 though initially pleasing; "Too
        much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: {cloy}]
     5: cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
     6: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [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}]

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 (especially for a window)
        [syn: {curtain}, {drape}, {drapery}, {mantle}]
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