pall

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Senses relating to cloth: Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
2. 2
   Senses relating to cloth: A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
3. 3
   Senses relating to cloth: A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
4. 4
   Senses relating to cloth: A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
5. 5
   Senses relating to clothing: An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
6. 6
   Senses relating to clothing: Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
7. 7
   Senses relating to clothing: Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
8. 8
   Senses relating to clothing: A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
9. 9
   A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
10. 10
    Alternative form of pawl.

Verb

1. 1
   To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
2. 2
   To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
3. 3
   To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
4. 4
   Alternative form of pawl.

Proper noun

1. 1
   A surname.