*pall*

v. i. 1. To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lose flavor or become stale. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Terror; dismay. [ Poet. ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
Syn. -- aghast(predicate), dismayed, shocked. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Depression occasioned by terror; dismay. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With reference to the archetype; originally. “Parts archetypally distinct.” Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum.
Syn. -- paleocortex [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ See Spale & Spall. ] (Shipbuilding) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, prop., interchange, exchange, fr, &unr_; to interchange; &unr_; under + &unr_; to change. ] (Gram.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others. Thus Virgil says, “dare classibus austros, ” to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Allelomorph.

n. (Zool.) Same as Impala. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make pallid; to blanch. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. integer whole + E. pallial. ] (Zool.) Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a municipal relation or condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The neocortex. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Pawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pal, AS. pæl, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle. ] 1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle. [ 1913 Webster ]

His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium. [ 1913 Webster ]

About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cloak. [ R. ] Shak [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Palled p. pr. & vb. n. Palling. ] [ Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. pâlir 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nausea. [ Obs. ] Shaftesbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. See Pall a cloak. ] (Rom. Antiq.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. (Arch.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century; as, a Palladian window. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ From Pallas, Athena. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the Greek goddess Athena, also called Pallas. [ PJC ]

2. Pertaining to wisdom or knowledge; -- Athena being the goddess of wisdom. [ PJC ]

prop. n. (Arch.) A follower of the architectural style of Andrea Palladio. [ PJC ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. Palla`dion, fr. Palla`s, Palla`dos, Pallas. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Gr. Antiq.) Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a safeguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible, with a melting point of 1555° C. It can also be prepared as a finely divided black powder. It is unique in its power of absorbing hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic number, 46. Atomic weight, 106.42. Density 12.0. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Palladiumized p. pr. & vb. n. Palladiumizing ] To cover or coat with palladium. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L., fr. Gr. Palla`s, Palla`dos. ] (Gr. Myth.) Pallas Athena, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athena, Pallas Athene or Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of pale. See Pale a stake. ] (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel. ] 1. (Paint.) Same as Palette. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pottery) (a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. (b) A potter's wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gilding) (a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. (b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mach.) (a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Zool.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A cup containing three ounces, -- formerly used by surgeons. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. &unr_; fine meal, dust, Skr. pala straw, palāva chaff. Cf. Paillasse. ] A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pallium a mantle. See Pall. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pallial chamber (Zool.), the cavity inclosed by the mantle. --
Pallial sinus (Zool.), an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of Bivalve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. palliare to clothe, fr. L. pallium a mantle. See Pall the garment. ] A dress; a robe. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. paillard, orig., one addicted to the couch, fr. paille straw. See Pallet a small bed. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A born beggar; a vagabond. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lecher; a lewd person. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Paillasse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment. ] 1. Covered with a mantle; cloaked; hidden; disguised. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [ Obs. ] Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Palliated p. pr. & vb. n. Palliating ] 1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. [ 1913 Webster ]

They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease without curing; as, to palliate a disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal. -- To Palliate, Extenuate, Cloak. These words, as here compared, are used in a figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to soften some of its features, and thus palliate approaches extenuate till they have become nearly or quite identical. “To palliate is not now used, though it once was, in the sense of wholly cloaking or covering over, as it might be, our sins, but in that of extenuating; to palliate our faults is not to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish their guilt in part.” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. palliation. ] 1. The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. palliatif. ] Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Palliative; extenuating. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pallidus, fr. pallere to be or look pale. See pale, a. ] Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]