Found 2 items, similar to Pall.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pall 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pall Pall \Pall\ (p[add]l), n. Same as Pawl. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Esther viii. 15). [1913 Webster] 3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium. [1913 Webster] About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] 4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. [1913 Webster] 5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. [1913 Webster] Warriors carry the warrior's pall. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. [1913 Webster] Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster] Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak [1913 Webster] Pall \Pall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled (p[add]ld); 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. [1913 Webster] Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin. [1913 Webster] Pall \Pall\, v. t. 1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] 2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. [1913 Webster]