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Pall n. 1.An outer garment; a cloak mantle. "His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold." 2.A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. (Obs.) 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." 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." 6.(Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; used to put over the chalice.
Pall n. Nausea. (Obs.)
Pawl n. (Written also paul, or pall) (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. Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. Pawl rim or Pawl ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.
verb Pall v. t. To cloak. (R.)
Pall v. t. 1.To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. "Reason and reflection... pall all his enjoyments." 2.To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
Pall v. i. (past & past part. palled; pres. part. palling) 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."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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