PALL, noun [Latin pallium.] 1. A cloke; a mantle of state. 2. The mantle of an archbishop. 3. The cloth thrown over a dead body at funerals. PALL, noun In heraldry, a figure like the Greek. PALL, verb transitive To cloke; to cover or invest. PALL, verb intransitive [Gr. old.] 1. To become vapid; to lose strength, life, spirit or taste; to become insipid; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye and palls upon the sense. PALL, verb transitive To make vapid or insipid. Reason and reflection--blunt the edge of the keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments. 1. To make spiritless; to dispirit; to depress. The more we raise our love, The more we pall and cool and kill his ardor. 2. To weaken; to impair; as, to pall fortune. 3. To cloy; as the palled appetite.
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