'VEIL' definitions:
Definition of 'veil'
From: WordNet
noun
A garment that covers the head and face [syn: head covering, veil]
noun
A membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms [syn: veil, velum]
noun
The inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul, veil, embryonic membrane]
noun
A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl [syn: humeral veil, veil]
verb
To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces" [ant: unveil]
verb
Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn: obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide]
Definition of 'Veil'
From: GCIDE
- Veil \Veil\ (v[=a]l), n. [OE. veile, OF. veile, F. voile, L. velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably fr. vehere to bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship on. See Vehicle, and cf. Reveal.] [Written also vail.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. [1913 Webster]
- The veil of the temple was rent in twain. --Matt. xxvii. 51. [1913 Webster]
- She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorn['e]d golden tresses wore. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A cover; a disguise; a mask; a pretense. [1913 Webster]
- [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) (a) The calyptra of mosses. (b) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) Same as Velum, 3. [1913 Webster]
- To take the veil (Eccl.), to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Veil'
From: GCIDE
- Veil \Veil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Veiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Veiling.] [Cf. OF. veler, F. voiler, L. velarc. See Veil, n.] [Written also vail.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. [1913 Webster]
- Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. [1913 Webster]
- To keep your great pretenses veiled. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'veil'
From: GCIDE
- Vail \Vail\, v. t. [Aphetic form of avale. See Avale, Vale.] [Written also vale, and veil.]
- 1. To let fall; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Vail your regard Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic. --Sir. W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'veil'
From: GCIDE
- Vail \Vail\ (v[=a]l), v. i. To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also vale, and veil.] [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. --South. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'veil'
From: GCIDE
- Caul \Caul\ (k[add]l), n. [OE. calle, kelle, prob. fr. F. cale; cf. Ir. calla a veil.]
- 1. A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Anat.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum. [1913 Webster]
- The caul serves for the warming of the lower belly. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth; -- called also a veil. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- It is deemed lucky to be with a caul or membrane over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chrysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. --Grose. [1913 Webster]
- I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'veil'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alibi,
- apology,
- apply to,
- awning,
- bamboo curtain,
- barrier of secrecy,
- beach umbrella,
- becloud,
- befog,
- blackout,
- blanket,
- blind,
- block,
- bosom,
- camouflage,
- canopy,
- censorship,
- classify,
- cloak,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- coat,
- color,
- coloring,
- conceal,
- cope,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover up,
- cover-up,
- coverage,
- covering,
- covert,
- coverture,
- cowl,
- cowling,
- curtain,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- distract attention from,
- drape,
- drapery,
- draw the curtains,
- eclipse,
- enclose,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- enwrap,
- excuse,
- facade,
- false front,
- feint,
- file and forget,
- film,
- front,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- guise,
- handle,
- hanging,
- hide,
- hold out on,
- hood,
- housing,
- hush-up,
- in petto,
- invest,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep between us,
- keep buttoned up,
- keep close,
- keep dark,
- keep from,
- keep in ignorance,
- keep mum,
- keep secret,
- keep snug,
- keep under cover,
- keep under wraps,
- lame excuse,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- light shield,
- locus standi,
- make no sign,
- mantilla,
- mantle,
- mask,
- muffle,
- never let on,
- not give away,
- not tell,
- oath of secrecy,
- obduce,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- official secrecy,
- ostensible motive,
- overlay,
- overshadow,
- overspread,
- pall,
- parasol,
- play dumb,
- poor excuse,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put on,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- repression,
- screen,
- scum,
- seal of secrecy,
- secrete,
- security,
- semblance,
- shade,
- shader,
- shadow,
- sham,
- shelter,
- shield,
- show,
- shroud,
- shutter,
- slur over,
- smoke screen,
- smothering,
- spread over,
- stalking-horse,
- stifling,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- sunblind,
- sunshade,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- suppression,
- trick,
- umbrella,
- varnish,
- veil of secrecy,
- veiler,
- veiling,
- vestment,
- whitewash,
- withhold,
- wrap,
- wraps,
- yashmak
Acronyms for 'VEIL'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Video Encoded Invisible Light Technology (VEIL)