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.
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.
Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury.
Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak
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.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin.
Pall \Pall\, v. t. 1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. --Chaucer.
Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. --Atterbury.
2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
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}.]
{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.
Emperor Hirohito's worsening health cast a pall over Japanese financial markets Tuesday, depressing stock and bond prices.
And that eventuality might cast a pall over the affiliated program, demoralizing those who have received similar treatment or discouraging the afflicted from getting help.
By dawn, a pall of smoke lit by the flames of dying fires covered the capital.
"As much as I like the guy, the fact is his future isn't certain, and that puts a pall on his bankability," says BBDO's Mr. Katz, who says Pepsi's plans regarding Mr. Hostetler are "up in the air."
Auto makers cast a pall over the market in the wake of General Motors' announcement Friday that it expects noncash charges of $16 billion to $24 billion as it changes the way it accounts for some retiree benefits.
Energy futures prices were slightly lower on the New York Mercantile Exchange after Persian Gulf developments cast a pall on early trading and technical factors brought the market back.
Some dealers suggested the shares were finally placed at 812p by BZW but the overhang cast a pall over the sector and Wellcome lost 8 to 660p.
The whole season was raced under a pall after Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger died in much-replayed crashes.
He says federal action is justified because the "demands of political correctness are casting a pall over American universities."
The impasse over the four islands, which the Soviets occupied at the end of World War II and which Japan says must be returned, cast a pall over Gorbachev's visit to Japan.
Such companies are now having to withdraw from financial services to stop the sector casting a permanent pall over the entire group.
After hunting and gathering and natural disasters begin to pall, paradise gets pretty boring without believable conflict, psychology or English prose.
The pall cast by the discovery of the gruesome human sacrifices remained most evident at the funeral homes in Matamoros.
Since then, dealers have been unable to recapture investor confidence in perpetuals, casting a pall over the entire floating-rate note market.
Even after import restrictions were eased, the Chileans add, "the pall cast by the FDA over Chilean fruit resulted in substantially reduced prices" world-wide.
Because of the summer blaze that ravaged much of the oldest national park, his once-bright future seems as cloudy as the pall of smoke over Yellowstone, where fires continue to smolder.
But the news cast a pall over trading as ticker services reported Drexel developments throughout the day.
Also, the insider-trading scandal "may spread even further and cast even more of a pall over junk bonds."
But the more serious loss is suffered by the university, because these acts of suppression tend to contribute to a pall of conformity.
Morticians hold conventions, too, And make the normal whoop-de-do; They laugh and joke and sing and all, And no one there is bearing pall.
But such highly leveraged transactions seemed to have multiplied this year, casting a pall over much of the junk market.
A double slaying Saturday cast a pall over a campaign that for the most part has been a war of words.
The pall has made breathing difficult in the vast northern zone. Waterbombers could not see the fires blazing in brush and timberland.
A pall is certain to be cast over the planned Moscow summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev if the treaty dispute is not resolved by the time Reagan arrives in the Soviet capital on May 29.
The blaze, which shot billows of smoke so high its pall was visible 160 miles away Wednesday, also threatened the park's Game Lodge, summer White House for two presidents.
Michael Krzewinski said. "Detectives who weren't even involved in the investigation came to work in a real jovial mood with food to contribute to our New Year's Eve dinner, and when they heard about this case, a pall just fell over the room.
There are dozens of panel paintings and painted wooden sculptures, incredibly beautiful tapestries and liturgical treasures. The huge funeral pall of the de Velascos, Constables of Castile, looks as fresh as if it were made yesterday.
The felony indictments at Chicago's big futures exchanges cast a pall over the smaller trading pits here.