pall Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a sudden numbing dread
chill.
noun burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
shroud; winding-sheet; winding-clothes; cerement.
noun hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
curtain; drape; drapery; mantle.
verb become less interesting or attractive
dull.
verb cause to lose courage
scare away; scare off; frighten off; dash; daunt; scare; frighten away.
- dashed by the refusal
verb cover with a pall
verb cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
cloy.
- Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite
verb cause to become flat
- pall the beer
verb lose sparkle or bouquet
become flat; die.
- wine and beer can pall
verb lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
- the course palled on her
verb lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
jade; fatigue; tire; weary.
- I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

OE. pal, AS. pæl, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.

An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.
A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. Obs. Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
(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.
(Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
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.
(Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. pâlir to grow pale. Cf. Appall, Pale, a.

imperfect & past participle Palled ; present participle & verbal noun Palling

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.

To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer.
Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury.
To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.