Pall

pawl, n. A cloak mantle a consecrated scarf- like vestment composed of white wool, and embroidered with cro es; a large, black cloth thrown over a coffin at a funeral. (Eccl.) A piece of stiffened linen, to cover the chalice.— v. To cloak; to cover or invest. [AS. psell, purple cloth, L. palla, a man curtain, pallium, a coverlet, pall, toga, perh. fr. pannus, cloth.]— PalP-bear'er, n. One who attends the coffin at a funeral.— PaPliate, pallt-at, v. To cover with excuse, soften by favorable representations, cloak, hide, extenuate; to reduce in violence, le en, abate, mitigate. [L. pall i at us, cloaked, covered.]— PaTlialion, n. Act of, or state of being, etc.; extenuating circumstances; concealment of the worst features of an offense mitigation or abatement (of disease, etc.). — Palliative, a. Serving to extenuate; relieving (pain or disease). — n. That which, etc.