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    Pall , n. Same as Pawl.
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    Pall, n. [OE. pal, AS. pæl, 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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    Pall, v. t. To cloak. [R.]
    Shak

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    Pall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. pâlir 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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    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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    Pall, n. Nausea. [Obs.]
    Shaftesbury.

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    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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