Pall

[pɔːl] or [pɔl]

Definition

(noun.) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.

(verb.) lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); 'the course palled on her'.

(verb.) become less interesting or attractive.

(verb.) cause to become flat; 'pall the beer'.

(verb.) cover with a pall.

Typist: Suzy--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Same as Pawl.

(n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

(n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.

(n.) Same as Pallium.

(n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

(n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.

(n.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

(v. t.) To cloak.

(a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.

(v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.

(v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

(n.) Nausea.

Editor: Wallace

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Cloak (of state), mantle.

v. a. [1]. Make vapid or insipid.[2]. Satiate, cloy, surfeit, sate, glut, gorge, fill to repletion.

v. n. Become insipid, grow tasteless.

Typed by Barack

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Blunt, dispirit, satiate, cloy

ANT:Quicken, sharpen, inspirit, whet

Typed by Annette

Definition

v.i. to become vapid insipid or wearisome.—v.t. to make vapid: to dispirit or depress.

n. a cloak or mantle an outer garment: a chalice-cover: (her.) a Y-shaped bearing charged with crosses patt?fitch as in the arms of the see of Canterbury—sometimes reversed: a pallium (q.v.): a curtain or covering: the cloth over a coffin at a funeral: that which brings deep sorrow.—n. Pall′-bear′er one of the mourners at a funeral who used to hold up the corners of the pall.

Editor: Lois

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream that you see a pall, denotes that you will have sorrow and misfortune. If you raise the pall from a corpse, you will doubtless soon mourn the death of one whom you love.

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