Mall \Mall\ (m[add]l; 277), n. [Written also maul.]
[OE.
malle, F. mail, L. malleus. Cf. Malleus.]
1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything
with force; a maul. --Addison.
2. A heavy blow. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See
Pall-mall. --Cotton.
4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public
walk; a level shaded walk.
Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and
planted with elms; and these convenient and
frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
--Southey.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Mall \Mall\ (m[a^]l), n. [LL. mallum a public assembly; cf. OHG.
mahal assembly, transaction; akin to AS. m[ae][eth]el,
me[eth]el, assembly, m[=ae]lan to speak, Goth. ma[thorn]l
market place.]
Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables
of a state for the transaction of public business, such
meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.
Hence:
(a) A court of justice.
(b) A place where justice is administered.
(c) A place where public meetings are held.
Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or
malls, ceased. --Milman.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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