pall : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pall	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for pall
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pall n a sudden numbing dread Synonym(s): chill, pall burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped Synonym(s): pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) Synonym(s): curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall v become less interesting or attractive Synonym(s): pall, dull cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" Synonym(s): daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare cover with a pall cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" Synonym(s): cloy, pall cause to become flat; "pall the beer" lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" Synonym(s): die, pall, become flat lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her" lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" Synonym(s): tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pall \Pall\, n. Same as {Pawl}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pall \Pall\, n. [OE. pal, AS. p[91]l, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.] 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 (Esther viii. 15). 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pall \Pall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Palled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Palling}.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. p[83]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.