pall vs underlay

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. 

underlay

noun
  • A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing. 

  • Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes. 

  • Anything that is underlaid. 

  • A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum. 

  • A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet. 

verb
  • To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under. 

  • To put a tap on (a shoe). 

  • simple past tense of underlie 

  • To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under. 

  • To incline from the vertical. 

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