pall 
(6) Same ta pallium, 2 (6). 
Thisjxrffe is an induement that euery archebysshop must 
haue, and is nat in full auctoritie of an archebysshop tyll 
he haue recyued his palle [of the PopeJ, and is a thynge of 
whyte lyke to the bredeth of a stole. 
falnjan, Chron., I. ccxxi. 
By the beginning, however, of the ninth century, the 
pall, though it still kept its olden shape of a long stole, 
began to be put on in a way slightly different from its first 
fashion ; for, instead of both ends falling at the side from 
the left shoulder, they fell down the middle, one in front, 
from the chest to the feet, the other just as low behind on 
the back. Rock, Church of our 1'athers, ii. 138. 
2. Fine cloth, such as was used for the robes 
of nobles. Also called cloth of pall. 
He took off his purple and his girdle of pott. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 102. 
His robe was noither grene na gray, 
Bot alle yt was of riche palle. 
Alt Yyod on ay Mounday (Child's Ballads, I. 273). 
He gave her gold and purple pall to weare. 
Spenter, F. Q., I. vii. 16. 
3. A curtain or covering. 
The grassy pall which hides 
The Sage of Monticello. 
Whittier, Randolph of Eoanoke. 
Specifically (a) A cloth or covering thrown over a coffln, 
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. 
An Urn of Gold was brought, 
Wrapt in soft Purple Palls, and richly wrought, 
In which the Sacred Ashes were interr'd. 
Congreve, Iliad. 
And thou [Death] art terrible the tear, 
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, 
And all we know, or dream, or fear 
Of agony, are thine. 
Hatteck, Marco Bozzaris. 
Among the things given to Durham cathedral at the 
death of Bishop Bury, there was a green pall, shot with 
gold, for covering that prelate's tomb. (Wills, etc., of the 
Northern Counties, p. 25.) 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. i. 93, note. 
Within are three tombs, all covered with magnificent 
palls embroidered in gold with verses from the Koran. 
Macaulay, in Trevelyau, I. 326. 
(6) A canopy. 
Ther is no prince preuyd vndir palle, 
But I ame moste myghty of all ; 
Nor no kyng but he schall come to my call, 
Nor grome that dare greue me for golde. 
York Plays, p. 308. 
Four Knights of the Garter . . . holding over Her Ma- 
]esty a rich pall of silk and cloth of gold. 
First Year of a Silken Reirrn, p. 261. 
(e) An altar-cloth. (1) A linen altar-cloth ; especially, a 
corporal. [Archaic.] (2) 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. (3) A covering of silk or other material for the 
front of an altar ; a frontal. [Archaic.] 
His Ma> attended by 3 Bishops went up to the altar, 
and he offer'd a pall and a pound of gold. 
Evelyn, Diary, April 23, 1661. 
The custom was among the Anglo-Saxons to have, dur- 
ing the holy Sacrifice, the altar-stone itself overspread with 
a purplepaW, made almost always out of rich silk and elab- 
orately embroidered. Rock, Church of our Fathers, i. 263. 
4. Figuratively, gloom : in allusion to the fune- 
ral pall. 5. In her., the suggestion of an epis- 
copal 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 
patte fitch6 to express its ec- 
ire, a pan argent^ clesiastical origin. Alsopairle. 
KSSSS -Per pall in &r., divided' in the 
fitche sable. direction of the line of the bearing 
called the pall that is, in the direc- 
tion of the lines of a capital Y and therefore into three 
parts, of three different tinctures : said of the field. 
pall 1 (pal), v. t. [< pain, n.] To cover with or 
as with a pall ; cover or invest ; shroud. [Rare.] 
Come, thick night, 
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell. 
Shale., Macbeth, i. 5. 52. 
Methought I saw the Holy Grail, 
AH pall'd in crimson samite. Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
pall 2 (pal), v. [< ME. patten, by apheresis for 
appallen, apallen, appal: see appal. In part 
perhaps < W. pallu, fail, cease, neglect; ct.pall, 
failure.] I. intrans. To become vapid, as wine 
or ale ; lose taste, life, or spirit ; become in- 
sipid; hence, to become distasteful, wearisome, 
etc. 
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, 
Fades in the eye and palls upon the sense. 
Addison, Cato, 1. 4. 
4244 
Thy pleasures stay not till they pall, 
And all thy pains are quickly past. 
Bryant, Lapse of Time. 
The longer I stayed debating, the more would the en- 
terprise pall upon me. 
Ji. D. Blackmare, Lorna Doone, xxxvii. 
II. trans. 1 . To make vapid or insipid. 
With a spoonful of pall'd wine pour'd in their water. 
Massinger, The Picture, v. 1. 
Reason and reflection . . . blunt the edge of his keenest 
desires, and pall all his enjoyments. Bp. Atterbury. 
Nor pall the Draught 
With nauseous Grief. Prior, Henry and Emma. 
2. To make spiritless ; dispirit; depress; weak- 
en; impair. 
It dulleth wits, ranckleth flesh, and palleth ofte fresh 
bloods. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 83. 
I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more. 
Shak.,A. andC., ii. 7. 88. 
Base, barbarous man, the more we raise our love, 
The more we pall and kill and cool his ardour. 
Dryden, Spanish Friar, v. 1. 
pall 2 (p&l), [< pall 2 , t'.] Nausea or nausea- 
tiou. 
The palls or nauseatings ... are of the worst and most 
hateful kind of sensation. Shqfteebury, Inquiry, II. ii. 2. 
pal! 3 t, v. t. [ME. pollen; cf. OF. paler, chase.] 
To knock; knockdown; beat; thrust. 
And with the ferste plaunke ich palle hym doune. 
Piers Plowman (C), xix. 34. 
Thai mellit with the mirmydons, that maisturles were, 
Put horn doun prestly, pallit horn thurgh. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11132. 
pall 4 , n. See pawl. 
pall 5 (p41), . [< Hind, pal, a 
small tent, also a sail, a dam, 
dike, < Skt. -J pa, protect.] In 
India, a small tent made by 
stretching canvas or cotton 
stuff over a ridge-pole support- 
ed on uprights. 
pall 6 , n. Seepalt. 
palla (pal'a), n. ; pi. pallse (-). 
[L., a mantle: see pall 1 .'] 1. 
In Bom. antiq., a full outer robe 
or wrap, akin to the Greek hima- 
tion, worn out of doors by wo- 
men. 2. Eccles., an altar-cloth; 
a piece of altar-linen (palla al- 
taris)', especially, a corporal 
(palla corporalis, palla domini- 
ca), or a chalice-pall. 
palladia, n. Plural ofpalladium. 
Palladian 1 (pa-la'di-an), a. [< 
Pallas (Pallad-), Pallas (see Pal- 
las), + -Jan.] Of or pertaining 
to the goddess Pallas or her at- 
tributes ; pertaining to wisdom, 
knowledge, or study. 
All his midnight watchings, and expence of Palladian 
oyl. Milton, Areopagitica, p. 31. 
Palladian- (pa-la'di-an), a. [< Palladia (see 
def .) + -an.'] Of or pertaining to or introduced 
by Andrea Palladio (1518-80), an Italian archi- 
tect of the Renaissance. 
The house is not Gothic, but of that betweenity that in- 
tervened when Gothic declined and Palladianwsa creep- 
ing in. Walpole, Letters, II. 174. 
Palladian architecture, a type of Italian architecture 
founded by Palladio upon his conception of the Roman 
antique as interpreted by Vitruvius, and upon the study 
pallah 
of the Colosseum, baths, triumphal arches, and other secu- 
lar buildings of the Rximans. It has been applied more 
frequently to palaces and civic buildings than to churches. 
In the Palladian style the Roman orders are employed 
rather as a decorative feature than as a constructive ele- 
ment, and applied without regard to classic precedent. 
Palladianism (pa-la'di-an-izm), . [< Palla- 
dian- + -i*i.] The system, style, taste, or 
method in architecture of Andrea Palladio and 
his followers. 
palladiont, n. [NL., < Gr. Hafoaitav: see pal- 
ludiiim.] Same as palladium. Chaucer. 
palladium (pa-la'di-um), n.; pi. palladia (-a). 
[= F. palladium = Sp. paladion (paladio, the 
metal) = Pg. It. 
palladioA'L. Pal- 
ladium,<GT. Ila/l- 
~Aadu>v, a statue of 
Pallas (see def.), 
Roman Matron 
wearing the Palla. 
(From a statue found 
at Herculaneum.) 
Ulysses carrying off the Palladium of 
Troy. From a Greek vase of Hieron. 
(From "Monumenti dell' Instituto.") 
XaeJ-), Pallas (Mi- 
nerva): see Pal- 
las. In def. 3, 
recent, directly < 
Gr. UaZUf, Pal- 
las.] 1. A statue 
or image of the 
goddess Pallas ; 
especially, in art 
and legend, a xo- 
anon image. On 
the preservation 
of such an image, 
according to the 
legend, depended 
the safety of 
Troy. Hence 
2. Anything believed or reputed to afford ef- 
fectual defense, protection, and safety: as, trial 
by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. 
Part of the Crosse, in which he thought such Vertue to 
reside as would prove a kind of Palladium to save the 
Citie where ever it remain'd, he cans'd to be laid up in a 
Pillar of Porphyrie by his Statue. 
Milton, Reformation inEng., i. 
It turns thepalladium of liberty into an engine of party. 
D. Webster, Speeches, Oct. 12, 1832. 
3. Chemic al symbol, Pd; atomic weight, 106.5. 
One of the rare metals associated with platinum. 
It was separated from native platinum by Wollaston in 
1803, and named alter the planet Pallas, which had just 
before that time been discovered by Olbers. Palladium 
is dimorphous. It occurs in Brazil native, in minute oc- 
tahedral crystals ; and on the Harz it has been found in 
small hexagonal plates. It is, however, a decidedly rare 
substance, and the chief supply comes from the working 
over of the platiniferous residues of various mints. It re- 
sembles platinum in appearance, but is harder ; its specific 
gravity is 11.4. It fuses more readily than platinum or 
any other of the so-called platinum metals, melting, as is 
stated by some authorities, about as easily as wrought-iron. 
It is both ductile and malleable, and would be a very use- 
ful metal if it were not so scarce as to be expensive and 
irregularly attainable. The graduated surfaces of some 
astronomical instruments have been made of palladium, a 
use for which this metal is admirably adapted on account 
of its color and its unalterability in the air. Alloyed with 
silver, it has been employed by dentists as a substitute 
for gold. Palladium-gold. See porpezite. 
palladiumize (pa-la'di-um-lz), c. t. ; pret. and 
pip.pattadiumized, -ppr-palladiuniiziny. [<.palla- 
dium + -ire.] To cover or coat with palladium. 
Art Journal. 
pallae, n. Plural of palla. 
pallai (pal'a), n. [African.] An African ante- 
lope, Mpyceros melampus. It Inhabits southern and 
western Africa, stands about three feet high at the withers, 
Palladian Architecture. Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, Italy. 
lamfKS-i. 
and is of a dark-reddish color above, dull-yellowish on the 
sides, and white beneath. There are no false hoofs, and 
