Definitions for Pall
pɔlpall

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 4 votes

1. chill, pallnoun

   a sudden numbing dread

2. pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothesnoun

   burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

3. curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pallverb

   hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

4. pall, dullverb

   become less interesting or attractive

5. daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scareverb

   cause to lose courage

   "dashed by the refusal"

6. pallverb

   cover with a pall

7. cloy, pallverb

   cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

   "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

8. pallverb

   cause to become flat

   "pall the beer"

9. die, pall, become flatverb

   lose sparkle or bouquet

   "wine and beer can pall"

10. pallverb

    lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)

    "the course palled on her"

11. tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jadeverb

    lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

    "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pallnoun

   Etymology: pallium, Latin.

   1. A cloak or mantle of state.

   With princely pace,
   As fair Aurora in her purple pall,
   Out of the East the dawning day doth call;
   So forth she comes. Fairy Queen, b. i. cant. 4.

   Let gorgeous tragedy
   In scepter’d pall come sweeping by. John Milton.

   2. The mantle of an archbishop.

   An archbishop ought to be consecrated and anointed, and after consecration he shall have the pall sent him. John Ayliffe.

   3. The covering thrown over the dead.

   The right side of the pall old Egeus kept,
   And on the left the royal Theseus wept. Dryden.

2. To Pallverb

   To cloak; to invest.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Come thick night
   And pall thee in the dunnest smoak of hell,
   That my keen knife see not the wound it makes. William Shakespeare.

3. To Pallverb

   1. To make insipid or vapid.

   Reason and reflection, representing perpetually to the mind the meanness of all sensual gratifications, blunt the edge of his keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments. Francis Atterbury.

   Wit, like wine, from happier climates brought,
   Dash’d by these rogues, turns English common draught,
   They pall Moliere’s and Lopez’ sprightly strain. Jonathan Swift.

   2. To impair spriteliness; to dispirit.

   A miracle
   Their joy with unexpected sorrow pall’d. Dryden.

   Ungrateful man,
   Base, barbarous man, the more we raise our love
   The more we pall, and cool, and kill his ardour. Dryden.

   3. To weaken; to impair.

   For this,
   I’ll never follow thy pall’d fortunes more. William Shakespeare.

   4. To cloy.

   Palled appetite is humorous, and must be gratified with sauces rather than food. Tatler, №. 54.

4. To Pallverb

   To grow vapid; to become insipid.

   Etymology: Of this word the etymologists give no reasonable account: perhaps it is only a corruption of pale, and was applied originally to colours.

   Empty one bottle into another swiftly, lest the drink pall. Francis Bacon.

   Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
   Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addison.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pall

   A pall is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. Alternatively, it can refer to a dark cloud of smoke, dust, etc. that covers an area and makes it less attractive or enjoyable. It can also refer to anything that covers, darkens, obscures, or makes gloomy/depressing, such as a pall of sadness over a gathering.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pallnoun

   same as Pawl

2. Pallnoun

   an outer garment; a cloak mantle

3. Pallnoun

   a kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages

4. Pallnoun

   same as Pallium

5. Pallnoun

   a figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y

6. Pallnoun

   a large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb

7. Pallnoun

   a piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice

8. Pallverb

   to cloak

9. Palladjective

   to become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls

10. Pallverb

    to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken

11. Pallverb

    to satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite

12. Pallnoun

    nausea

13. Etymology: [OE. pal, AS. pl, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pall

   A pall is a Y-shaped heraldic charge, normally having its arms in the three corners of the shield. An example of a pall placed horizontally is the green portion of the Flag of South Africa. A pall that stops short of the shield's edges and that has pointed ends to its three limbs is called a shakefork, although some heraldic sources do not make a distinction between a pall and a shakefork. A pall standing upside down is named pall reversed. A pall on a shield may indicate a connection with the clergy, particularly archbishoprics, although in these cases the pall's lower limb usually stops short of the bottom of the shield and is fringed. Such a pall is often called an ecclesiastical pall or pallium. This is in reference to the ecclesiastical vestment from which this heraldic charge derives.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pall

   pawl, n. a cloak or mantle, an outer garment: a chalice-cover: (her.) a Y-shaped bearing charged with crosses patté fitché, as in the arms of the see of Canterbury—sometimes reversed: a pallium (q.v.): a curtain or covering: the cloth over a coffin at a funeral: that which brings deep sorrow.—n. Pall′-bear′er, one of the mourners at a funeral who used to hold up the corners of the pall. [A.S. pæll, purple cloth—L. palla, a mantle; cf. Pallium, a cloak.]

2. Pall

   pawl, v.i. to become vapid, insipid, or wearisome.—v.t. to make vapid: to dispirit or depress. [W. pallu, to fail, pall, failure.]

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1. PALL

   What does PALL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PALL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PALL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pall is ranked #35912 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pall surname appeared 625 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pall.
   
   80.8% or 505 total occurrences were White.
   12% or 75 total occurrences were Asian.
   4.1% or 26 total occurrences were Black.
   1.7% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.2% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Apprehension
   • Change
   • Cover
   • Deteriorate
   • Satiate
   • Weaken

How to pronounce Pall?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Pall in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pall in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pall in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Pall in a Sentence

1. Trey Gowdy:

   Peter Strzok's manifest bias trending toward animus casts a pall on this investigation…His bias impacted his decision making and he assigned to himself the role of stopping the Trump campaign or ending a Trump Presidency, this is not the FBI I know.

2. Tom Rhodes:

   A very foreboding sign, the journalist was killed just three days after President Salva Kiir threatened to target journalists before departing for peace talks in Addis Ababa, it is still too early to tell whether there is a link but this tragedy will certainly cast a pall over independent reporting in the country as South Sudanese journalists are increasingly forced to self-censor as a means of survival.

3. James McGlew:

   The China-U.S. trade war and the Hong Kong protest are combining to cast a negative pall on Asian markets today, hong Kong protests have been dragging on for a while and the view from the financial world is that it's really starting to bite now. The further this drags on it's certainly going to be very negative.

4. Amira Elghawaby:

   It is extremely important to weigh our words carefully and to be sure that when we're talking about violent extremism and criminal behavior, that we do so without alienating, marginalizing and casting this pall of suspicion over the more than 1 million Canadian Muslims.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Pall
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Pall
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pall
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Pall
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Pall
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html