pall

Senses relating to cloth.

Senses relating to cloth.

After his death he [Diocletian] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]

Senses relating to cloth.

Senses relating to cloth.

Senses relating to clothing.

In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]

His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed.

To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.

Come, thick Night, / And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, / That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, / Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, / To cry, hold, hold.

To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.

[…] Reaſon and Reflection, which by repreſenting perpetually to the mind of Man the meanneſs of all ſenſual Gratifications, do, in great meaſure, blunt the edge of his keeneſt Deſires, and pall all his Enjoyments.

To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

The liquor palls.

[T]he ale and byere haue palled, and were nought, by cause such ale and biere hathe taken wynde in spurgyng.