1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
Spenser. 2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif
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.
Fuller. 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.
Tennyson. 6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; — used to put over
the chalice.
Pall
(Pall), v. t. To cloak. [R.] Shak
Pall
(Pall), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F.
pâlir 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.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
Addisin. Pall
(Pall), v. t.
1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer.
Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments.
Atterbury. 2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
Pall
(Pall), n. Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.
