Definitions of Pall [ɔl]

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Definition of 'Pall'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) pall
something that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom.

2.  pall
a cloth for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.

3.  pall
a coffin.

4.  pall
a linen cloth or a square cloth-covered piece of cardboard used to cover a chalice.

5.  pall
Archaic. a cloth spread upon an altar; corporal.

6.  pall
Archaic. a garment, esp. a robe, cloak, or the like.

7. (v.t.) pall
to cover with or as if with a pall.

8. (v.i.) pall
to have a wearying or tiresome effect.

9.  pall
to become distasteful or unpleasant.

10.  pall
to become satiated or cloyed with something.

11. (v.t.) pall
to satiate or cloy.

12.  pall
to make dull, distasteful, or unpleasant.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME, aph. var. of

Definition of 'Pall'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) chill, pall
a sudden numbing dread

2. (noun) pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes
burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

3. (verb) curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

4. (verb) pall, dull
become less interesting or attractive

5. (verb) daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
cause to lose courage
"dashed by the refusal"

6. (verb) pall
cover with a pall

7. (verb) cloy, pall
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
"Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

8. (verb) pall
cause to become flat
"pall the beer"

9. (verb) die, pall, become flat
lose sparkle or bouquet
"wine and beer can pall"

10. (verb) pall
lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
"the course palled on her"

11. (verb) tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
"I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"

Definition of 'Pall'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Pall
to become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls

2. (noun) Pall
same as Pawl

3. (noun) Pall
an outer garment; a cloak mantle

4. (noun) Pall
a kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages

5. (noun) Pall
same as Pallium

6. (noun) Pall
a figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y

7. (noun) Pall
a large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb

8. (noun) Pall
a piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice

9. (noun) Pall
nausea

10. (verb) Pall
to cloak

11. (verb) Pall
to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken

12. (verb) Pall
to satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite

Translation of 'Pall'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the (usually dark-coloured) cloth which covers a coffin at a funeral a pall of purple-velvet; A pall of smoke hung over the town.
Afrikaans: kisdoek, doodskleed	Arabic: غِطاء النَّعْش	Bulgarian: плащаница
Brazilian: pano mortuário	Czech: příkrov; závoj, mrak	German: das Bahr- bzw. Leichentuc
Danish: dække; tæppe	Greek: βαρύ πέπλο	Spanish: paño mortuorio; cortina,
Estonian: sargakate	Farsi: روکش تابوت	Finnish: paariliina
French: drap mortuaire, voile	Hebrew: אֲרִיג אֶבֶל	Hindi: आवरण
Croatian: mrtvački pokrov	Hungarian: szemfedél	Indonesian: penutup peti mati
Icelandic: líkkistuábreiða	Italian: (drappo funebre)	Japanese: 棺おおい
Korean: 관 덮개	Lithuanian: (tamsus) dangalas, skrais	Latvian: zārka pārklājs; tumšs aiz
Malay: lurub	Dutch: baarkleed	Norwegian: likklede
Polish: całun	Persian: روکش تابوت	Pashto: کفن
Portuguese: pano mortuário	Romanian: giulgiu	Russian: покров
Slovak: príkrov; mrak	Slovenian: mrtvaški prt; pregrinjalo	Serbian: mrtvački pokrov
Swedish: [bår]täcke, [rök]ridå	Thai: ผ้าคลุมหีบศพ	Turkish: tabutörtüsü
Taiwanese: 柩衣，棺罩	Ukrainian: покривало	Urdu: جنازے کے اوپر کي چادر
Vietnamese: vải phủ ngoài áo quan	Chinese: 柩衣，棺罩
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