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English Dictionary: palling by the DICT Development Group
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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.
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