Dictionary 1. (n.) A dark covering; a gloomy effect or atmosphere; a covering for a coffin; as, a pall bearer\.2. (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle. 3. (n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. 4. (n.) Same as Pallium. 5. (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. 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. (v. t.) To cloak. 9. (v.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. 10. (v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. 11. (v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. 12. (n.) Nausea. Thesaurus 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 |