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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mall
     n 1: a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: promenade]
     2: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully
        landscaped complex of shops representing leading
        merchandisers; a modern version of the traditional
        marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house";
        "they spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn: plaza,
         center, shopping mall, shopping center]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.
Mall \Mall\ (m[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malled (m[add]ld);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Malling.] [Cf. OF. mailler. See Mall
   beetle, and cf. Malleate.]
   To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise;
   to maul.
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.
Maul \Maul\, n. [See Mall a hammer.]
   A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also mall.]

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

mall

   <World-Wide Web> A collection of World-Wide Web documents
   featuring commercial products and services, usually served by
   one particualr Internet access provider.

   (1995-04-10)