Pall

n.	1.	Same as Pawl.
	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.
	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.
v. t.	1.	To cloak.
v. i.	1.	To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. [imp. & p. p. Palled (pạld); p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. - Addisin.
v. t.	1.	To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. - Atterbury.
	2.	To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
n.	1.	Nausea.

Noun	1.	pall - a sudden numbing dread Synonyms: chill
	2.	pall - burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped Synonyms: cerement, winding-clothes, winding-sheet, shroud
	3.	pall - hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle
Verb	1.	pall - become less interesting or attractive Synonyms: dull
	2.	pall - cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare away, scare off, scare, dash
	3.	pall - cover with a pall
	4.	pall - cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" Synonyms: cloy
	5.	pall - cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
	6.	pall - lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" Synonyms: become flat, die
	7.	pall - lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
	8.	pall - get tired of something or somebody Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary

To see a pall in your dream, forewarns of approaching bad news. To dream that you raise the pall from a corpse, signifies bereavement and grief.allay, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, blackout, blanket, bore, censorship, cerecloth, cerements, cloak, cloth, cloy, coat, cold water, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, cram, curtain, damper, disgust, drag on, drape, drapery, engorge, ennui, fatigue, fill, fill up, glut, go on forever, gorge, graveclothes, guise, hanging, hood, housing, hush-up, irk, iron curtain, ironbound security, irritate, jade, mantle, mask, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, repression, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, screen, seal of secrecy, security, shelter, shield, shroud, sicken, slake, smothering, stall, stifling, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, suppression, surfeit, tire, tire to death, veil, veil of secrecy, vestment, wear, wear on, weary, wet blanket, winding sheet, wraps

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