Pall | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pall, n.

noun

(pawl), n. [A-S. pāll, pell, O. Fr. pali, paile, Pr. pali, Sp. palio, It. palio, pallio, from Lat. pallium, cover, cloak, mantle.] 1. An outer garment; a cloak; a mantle. His lion’s skin he changed to a pall of gold. Spencer.

A kind of rich stuff formerly used for making mantles.
A consecrated vestment worn by the pope, and by him sent as a mark of honor to patriarchs, primates, metropolitans, and sometimes to bishops. Its form is that of a scarf, composed of white wool, and embroidered with purple crosses. Fairholt.

About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop’s palls into England—the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.

A large, black cloth thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
(Her.) A figure imitating the form of the ecclesiastical pall, and having somewhat the appearance of the letter Y.

Pall, n.

noun

n. [See PAWL.] A detent or click, that is, a small piece of metal or wood, which falls between the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, or of a windlass, to prevent its revolving backward, or to move it forward; a pawl.

Pall, v. t.

verbtransitive

To cloak; to cover or invest. Shak.

Pall, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. PALLED; p. pr. & vb. n. PALLING.] [O. Fr. pale, palle, pale, wan, sallow. See PALE.] To become vapid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; to become insipid; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addison.

Pall, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To make vapid or insipid. Reason and reflection . . . blunt the edge of the keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury. 2. To make spiritless; to dispirit; to depress. The more we raise our love, The more we pall, and cool, and kill his ardor. Dryden.

To weaken; to impair; as to pall fortune. [Obs.] Shak.
To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

Pall, n.

noun

n. Nausea or nauseating. Shaftesbury.

Pall, n.

noun

n. The same as PAL, q. v.