Pall

  • 11Pall — 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… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 12pall — [n] cloud, gloom cloak, cloth, covering, damp, damper, dismay, mantle, melancholy, shadow, shroud, veil; concepts 620,674 Ant. brightness, excitement, happiness pall [v] bore, tire become dull, become tedious, cloy, disgust, fill, glut, gorge,… …

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  • 13pall — Ⅰ. pall [1] ► NOUN 1) a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. 2) a dark cloud of smoke, dust, etc. 3) an enveloping air of gloom or fear. 4) an ecclesiastical pallium. ORIGIN Latin pallium covering, cloak . Ⅱ …

    English terms dictionary

  • 14pall — pall1 [pôl] vi. palled, palling [ME pallen, aphetic for appallen,APPALL] 1. to become cloying, insipid, boring, wearisome, etc. 2. to become satiated or bored vt. to satiate, bore, or disgust pall2 [pôl] n …

    English World dictionary

  • 15Pall. — Pall., bei Tiernamen Abkürzung für P. S. Pallas (s. d.) …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 16pall — index veil Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 17Pall — Smn Sperrklinke per. Wortschatz ndd. (20. Jh.) Stammwort. Vermutlich eine niederdeutsch niederländische Variante zu dem Wort Pfahl, ausgehend von einfacheren Rädern und Räderwerken, bei denen mit Pfählen gesperrt und gebremst wurde. Vgl. nndl.… …

    Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • 18pall — cloy, surfeit, *satiate, sate, glut, gorge …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 19pall- — *pall germ., Substantiv: nhd. Hülle, Decke, Kleid; ne. cover (Neutrum), garment; Rekontruktionsbasis: ae., mnd., ahd.; Interferenz: Lehnwort lat. pallium; Etymologie …

    Germanisches Wörterbuch

  • 20pall — I UK [pɔːl] / US [pɔl] noun Word forms pall : singular pall plural palls 1) [singular] something such as smoke, dust, or cloud that covers an area and makes it darker pall of: a thick pall of cigarette smoke 2) a) [countable] a coffin b) a thick… …

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