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Definition of pall

Pall
Pall Pall, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak
Pall
Pall Pall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled; 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. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin.
Pall
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 Pall, n. Same as Pawl.
Pall
Pall Pall, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.
pall
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.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. Pawl rim or ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.

Meaning of pall from wikipedia

- Look up pall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pall may refer to: Pall (funeral), a cloth used to cover a coffin Pall (heraldry), a Y-shaped heraldic...
- Páll is a name primarily of Icelandic [ˈpʰautl̥] and Faroese origins. Notable people with the name include: Páll Bálkason (died 1231), Hebridean lord who...
- David Boris Pall (2 April 1914 – 21 September 2004), founder of Pall Corporation, was the chemist who invented the Pall filter used in blood transfusions...
- Look up Pall Mall or pall mall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pall mall, paille maille, palle malle, etc., may refer to: Pall-mall, a lawn game related...
- casket bearer. The former is a ceremonial position, carrying a tip of the pall or a cord attached to it. The latter do the actual heavy lifting and carrying...
- Pall-mall, paille-maille, palle-maille, pell-mell, or palle-malle (/ˈpælˈmæl/, /ˈpɛlˈmɛl/, also US: /ˈpɔːlˈmɔːl/) is a lawn game (though primarily pla****...
- Jón Páll Sigmarsson (28 April 1960 – 16 January 1993) was an Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder who was the first man to win the World's...
- A pall (also called mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through...
- pall (or pairle) in heraldry and vexillology is a Y-shaped charge, normally having its arms in the three corners of the shield. An example of a pall placed...
- Páll Guðmundsson (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈpʰautl̥ ˈkvʏðmʏntsɔn]; born 1959) is a sculptor and artist. Born in Húsafell in the west of Iceland (where...