pall

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To become insipid, boring, or wearisome.
• intransitive verb To have a dulling, wearisome, or boring effect.
• intransitive verb To become cloyed or satiated.
• intransitive verb To cloy; satiate.
• intransitive verb To make vapid or wearisome.
• noun A cover for a coffin, bier, or tomb, often made of black, purple, or white velvet.
• noun A coffin, especially one being carried to a grave or tomb.
• noun A covering that darkens or obscures.
• noun A gloomy effect or atmosphere.
• noun A linen cloth or a square of cardboard faced with cloth used to cover the chalice.
• transitive verb To cover with or as if with a pall.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To become vapid, as wine or ale; lose taste, life, or spirit; become insipid; hence, to become distasteful, wearisome, etc.
• To make vapid or insipid.
• To make spiritless; dispirit; depress; weaken; impair.
• noun See pal.
• To cover with or as with a pall; cover or invest; shroud.
• noun Nausea or nauseation.
• To knock; knock down; beat; thrust.
• noun See pawl.
• noun In India, a small tent made by stretching canvas or cotton stuff over a ridge-pole supported on uprights.
• noun An outer garment; a cloak; a mantle.
• noun Specifically — A robe put on a king at his coronation.
• noun Same as pallium, 2.
• noun Fine cloth, such as was used for the robes of nobles. Also called cloth of pall.
• noun A curtain or covering.
• noun Specifically— A cloth or covering thrown over a coffin, bier, tomb, etc.: as, a funeral pall. At the present time this is black, purple, or white; it is sometimes enriched with embroidery or with heraldic devices.
• noun A canopy.
• noun An altar-cloth.
• noun A linen altar-cloth; especially, a corporal.
• noun A linen cloth used to cover the chalice; a chalice-pall. This is now the usual meaning of pall as a piece of altar-linen. Formerly one corner of the corporal covered the chalice; the use of a separate pall, however, is as old as the twelfth century. The pall is now a small square piece of cardboard faced on both sides with linen or lawn. In carrying the holy vessels to and from the altar, the pall, covered with the veil, supports the burse, and itself rests on the paten and the paten on the chalice.
• noun A covering of silk or other material for the front of an altar; a frontal.
• noun Figuratively, gloom: in allusion to the funeral pall.
• noun In heraldry, the suggestion of an episcopal pall; a Y-shaped form, said to be composed of half a saltier and half a pale, and therefore in width one fifth of the height of the escutcheon: it is sometimes, though rarely, represented reversed, and is always charged with crosses patté fitché to express its ecclesiastical origin. Also pairle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Same as pawl.
• transitive verb rare To cloak.
• transitive verb To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
• transitive verb To satiate; to cloy.
• noun An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
• noun obsolete A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
• noun (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium.
• noun (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
• noun A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
• noun (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
• noun obsolete Nausea.
• intransitive verb To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken
• noun archaic fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes