pall
pall is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 11 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.
- 2.A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
- 3.(R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.
- 4.(Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
- 5.A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson.
- 6.(Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
- 7.To cloak. [R.] Shak
- 8.To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisin.
- 9.To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury.
- 10.To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
- 11.Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acerbity
- acrid
- acridity
- acrimonious
- acrimony
- agent
- alb
- amaritude
- amice
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetize
- and
- apron
- austerity
- basta
- benumb
- biretta
- bitter
- bitterness
- blase
- blunt
- bore
- callous
- calotte
- canonicals
- capouch
- case
- cassock
- chasuble
- child
- chloral
- chloroform
- cloy
- cloyment
- coma
- comatose
- cope
- costume
- cowl
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is pall.
- What is an outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser called?
- What is a kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15) called?
- What is same as Pallium. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller called?
- What is a figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y called?
- What is a large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson called?
- What is a piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice called?
- What is to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury called?
- What is to satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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