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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pall \Pall\ (p[add]l), n. Same as {Pawl}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pawl \Pawl\, n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. {Pole} a stake.] (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. See Illust. of {Ratchet Wheel}. [Written also {paul}, or {pall}.] [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: pall n 1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: {chill}, {pall}] 2: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: {pall}, {shroud}, {cerement}, {winding-sheet}, {winding-clothes}] 3: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: {curtain}, {drape}, {drapery}, {mantle}, {pall}] v 1: become less interesting or attractive [syn: {pall}, {dull}] 2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: {daunt}, {dash}, {scare off}, {pall}, {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}, {pall}] 5: cause to become flat; "pall the beer" 6: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: {die}, {pall}, {become flat}] 7: lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her" 8: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: {tire}, {pall}, {weary}, {fatigue}, {jade}]