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▸ noun: (archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
▸ noun: A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
▸ noun: (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
▸ noun: (Christianity, obsolete) 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”).
▸ noun: Senses relating to clothing.
▸ noun: (archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
▸ noun: (Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
▸ noun: (heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
▸ noun: (obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Alternative form of pawl [A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.]
▸ verb: Alternative form of pawl [(transitive) To stop with a pawl.]
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