Pall

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) Nausea.

(2): ( v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.

(3): ( v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

(4): ( v. t.) To cloak.

(5): ( a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.

(6): ( n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.

(7): ( n.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; - used to put over the chalice.

(8): ( n.) Same as Pawl.

(9): ( n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

(10): ( n.) Same as Pallium.

(11): ( n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.

(12): ( n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

in heraldry, the upper part of a saltire conjoined to the lower part of a pale. It appears much in the arms of ecclesiastical sees.