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pall
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pall \Pall\ (p[add]l), n. Same as Pawl. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
--Spenser.
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2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
[Obs.] --Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
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3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium.
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About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's
palls into England, -- the one for London, the other
for York. --Fuller.
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4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or
pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
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5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a
coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
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Warriors carry the warrior's pall. --Tennyson.
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6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and
embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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:
Pall \Pall\, v. t.
1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless;
to dull; to weaken. --Chaucer.
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Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments.
--Atterbury.
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2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
