The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pall \Pall\ (p[add]l), n.
   Same as Pawl.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pall \Pall\, n. [OE. pal, AS. p[ae]l, from L. pallium cover,
   cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.]
   1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
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            His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
      [Obs.] --Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
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   3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium.
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            About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's
            palls into England, -- the one for London, the other
            for York.                             --Fuller.
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   4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or
      pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
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   5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a
      coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
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            Warriors carry the warrior's pall.    --Tennyson.
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   6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and
      embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pall \Pall\, v. t.
   To cloak. [R.] --Shak
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pall \Pall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled (p[add]ld); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Palling.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F.
   p[^a]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.
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         Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
         Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pall \Pall\, v. t.
   1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless;
      to dull; to weaken. --Chaucer.
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            Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments.
                                                  --Atterbury.
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   2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pall \Pall\, n.
   Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.]
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   Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass,
      to receive the strain of the pawls.

   Pawl rim or Pawl ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring
      surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the
      pawls to catch in.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pall
    n 1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall]
    2: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall,
       shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes]
    3: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn:
       curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall]
    v 1: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull]
    2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt,
       dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away,
       frighten away, scare]
    3: cover with a pall
    4: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too
       much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall]
    5: cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
    6: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn:
       die, pall, become flat]
    7: lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring,
       insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
    8: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody;
       "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my
       food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

91 Moby Thesaurus words for "pall":
   allay, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy,
   be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, blackout, blanket, bore,
   censorship, cerecloth, cerements, cloak, cloth, cloy, coat,
   cold water, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl,
   cowling, cram, curtain, damper, disgust, drag on, drape, drapery,
   engorge, ennui, fatigue, fill, fill up, glut, go on forever, gorge,
   graveclothes, guise, hanging, hood, housing, hush-up, irk,
   iron curtain, ironbound security, irritate, jade, mantle, mask,
   oath of secrecy, official secrecy, overdose, overfeed, overfill,
   overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, repression, sate, satiate,
   satisfy, saturate, screen, seal of secrecy, security, shelter,
   shield, shroud, sicken, slake, smothering, stall, stifling, stodge,
   stuff, supersaturate, suppression, surfeit, tire, tire to death,
   veil, veil of secrecy, vestment, wear, wear on, weary, wet blanket,
   winding sheet, wraps