pall
(archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
(Christianity, obsolete) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed) or frontal (drapery covering the front of an altar).
(archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
(figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
(Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a (liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble).
(heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
Come, thick Night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoake of Hell, / That my keene Knife see not the Wound it makes, / Nor Heaven peepe through the Blanket of the darke, / To cry, hold, hold.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
He interests himself in nothing: he scarcely cares to go beyond the garden-gate. Even Captain Glanders and Captain Strong pall upon him […]
We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.
(obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
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