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}]