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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Pall \Pall\ (p[add]l), n. Same as Pawl. [1913 Webster]

  2.                 From 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. [1913 Webster]

    His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

    2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Esther viii. 15). [1913 Webster]

    3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium. [1913 Webster]

    About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]

    4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. [1913 Webster]

    5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. [1913 Webster]

    Warriors carry the warrior's pall. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

    6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. [1913 Webster]

  3.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak [1913 Webster]

  4.                 From 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. [1913 Webster]

    Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin. [1913 Webster]

  5.                 From 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. [1913 Webster]

    Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]

    2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. [1913 Webster]

  6.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster]

  7.                 From 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.] [1913 Webster]

    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. [1913 Webster]