(pôl) noun
1. A covering, usually of black cloth, thrown over a coffin or over a tomb; figuratively, that which brings deep sorrow or fear; also, metaphorically, a dark, heavy covering: a pall of smoke.
2. Eccl. a A chalice cover, consisting of a square piece of cardboard faced on both sides with lawn or linen. b An altar cloth. c A prelate's pallium.
—heraldic pall The Y-shaped bearing resembling a pallium.
—v.t. To cover with or as with a pall. ♦ Homophone: pawl. [OE paell a cloak <L pallium a pallium]
HERALDIC PALL
From the arms of the See of Canterbury.

(pôl) v.i.
1. To become insipid or uninteresting.
2. To have a dulling or displeasing effect: with on.
—v.t.
3. To satiate; cloy; disgust. ♦ Homophone: pawl. [Appar. aphetic var. of APPAL]