<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.</li><li>a coffin.</li><li>anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, especially with darkness or gloom.</li><li>Synonyms: melancholy, veil, shroud, shadow, darkness, cloud.</li><li>Ecclesiastical: pallium (def 2b).</li><li>a linen cloth or a square cloth-covered piece of cardboard used to cover a chalice.</li><li>Heraldry: pairle (def).</li><li>Archaic: a cloth spread upon an altar; corporal.</li><li>Archaic: a garment, especially a robe, cloak, or the like.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to cover with or as with a pall.</li></ul>