Pall /(pa̤l)/

1. Same as Pawl.

1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

   His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.

2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.]
3. Same as Pallium. (R. C. Ch.)

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

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

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

1. To cloak. [R.]

imp. & p. p. Palled; p. pr. & vb. n. Palling

1. 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.

1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.

   Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments.

2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

1. Nausea. [Obs.]