pall vs shroud

pall

noun
  • Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion. 

  • A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist. 

  • A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y charged with crosses. 

  • Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”). 

  • A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse. 

verb
  • To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. 

  • To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. 

  • To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. 

shroud

noun
  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud. 

  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. 

  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. 

  • The branching top of a tree; foliage. 

  • One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively. 

  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. 

  • A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch. 

  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. 

verb
  • To cover with a shroud. 

  • To take shelter or harbour. 

  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud. 

  • To lop the branches from (a tree). 

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