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Verb
/pôl/,
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palls, plural;
  1. Become less appealing or interesting through familiarity
    • - the novelty of the quiet life palled
Noun
  1. A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb

  2. A dark cloud or covering of smoke, dust, or similar matter
    • - a pall of black smoke hung over the quarry
  3. Something regarded as enveloping a situation with an air of gloom, heaviness, or fear
    • - torture and murder have cast a pall of terror over the villages
  4. An ecclesiastical pallium

  5. A Y-shaped charge representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium

  1. become less interesting or attractive
  2. chill: a sudden numbing dread
  3. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
  4. daunt: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
  5. cover with a pall
  6. curtain: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
  7. cloy: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
  8. cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
  9. Peter Simon Pallas (22 September 1741 - 8 September 1811) was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.
  10. A pall (also called mortcloth) is a cloth which covers a casket or coffin at funerals. The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through Old English.
  11. A pall (or pairle) is a Y-shaped heraldic charge. An example of a pall placed horizontally (fesswise) is the green portion of the Flag of South Africa.
  12. An altar cloth is used by various religious groups to cover an altar. Christianity, ancient Judaism, and Buddhism are among the world religions that use altar cloths.
  13. fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes; a cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church; a heavy canvas, especially laid over a coffin or tomb; to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken
  14. To dream that you see a pall, denotes that you will have sorrow and misfortune. If you raise the pall from a corpse, you will doubtless soon mourn the death of one whom you love.
  15. (Gr. Omophorion). One of the bishop's vestments, made of a band of brocade worn about the neck and around the shoulders. It signifies the Good Shepherd and the spiritual authority of a bishop.
  16. Covering on casket during funeral or the coffin itself (i.e. pall bearers). Also something that obscures or dulls.
  17. On the altar, a stiffened square of linen that is placed over the paten.
  18. A covering, usually of black cloth, thrown over a coffin or tomb; figuratively,  that which brings deep sorrow; metaphorically, a dark covering. >OE paell (34)
  19. a cloth used for covering or spreading over a coffin, casket, bier, catafalque, or tomb; as derived from the piece of cloth used in ancient Greece and Rome as an outer wrapping for the body [pallium, himation], being a cloak or tunic, mantle or cape, vestment or garment. ...
  20. A large cloth, white or gold that completely covers the casket during the Mass of Christian Burial. It represents the baptismal robe that is placed on a person during the ceremony of Baptism. It reminds us that all are equal in the eyes of God, so the focus is not on the type of casket. ...
  21. or paile an archiepiscopal vestment of white lamb's wool, formed in heraldry by half a pale issuing from the base meeting in the fess point half a saltire issuing from the dexter and sinister chief to form a letter Y
  22. (1) A stiffened piece of cloth used to cover the chalice during the Holy Communion, except during the Berba and the distribution, to keep foreign objects from falling into it. ...
  23. a religious cloth that is placed over a coffin at the funeral ceremony.
  24. vb. To become pale; to lose strength or effectiveness when asked substantive questions. n. Something that covers or conceals the issues.
  25. an overspreading covering, as of dark clouds or black smoke, that cloaks or obscures in a gloomy, depressing way.