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Palling

Pall \Pall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled (p[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. p[^a]lir to grow pale. Cf. Appall, Pale,

  1. ] To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.

    Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
    --Addisin.

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palling

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of pall English) Etymology 2

vb. (present participle of pal English)

WordNet
pal
  1. n. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony, sidekick]

  2. [also: palling, palled]

pal
  1. v. become friends; act friendly towards [syn: pal up, chum up]

  2. [also: palling, palled]

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Palling

Palling is a municipality in the district of Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany.

Usage examples of "palling".

This went on for most of the day—but as an example, Edmund Palling came up and shook Daniel’s hand.

Old Man Palling had attended the memorial service for Drake, and during his years living in London, Daniel had occasionally bumped into this elderly man on the streets of London.

He could no more defend that King, or any monarch, to Edmund Palling than go to a meeting of the Royal Society and assert that the Sun revolved around the Earth.

Edmund Palling, an old man of my long acquaintance, who has for many years longed to migrate to Massachusetts with his family.

Edmund Palling related details of the voyage to Massachusetts planned for April.

Boris Roznine had contacted her the moment the ap palling discovery had been made.

Teep was a teenager who should have been palling around on the playground with Corran's son Valin, only a few years Teep's junior.

The woman who had helped betray Coruscant to the Yuuzhan Vong, the woman who had stolen Mara's son, Ben, was here, palling around with her Yuuzhan Vong masters while the world crumbled around them.

His fellow evangelists are none too happy about his palling around with Zhu Rongi, the communist dictator who gleefully jails Christian ministers.