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Veil
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- 1 Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
"The veil of the temple was rent in twain."
- 2 a garment that covers the head and face wordnet
- 3 Anything that partially obscures a clear view. figuratively
"Above the smoky veil over the town rose Akerhus fort, with its towers standing out in sharp relief against the mirror of the fjord, beyond where the Nœs point loomed as a black shadow."
- 4 a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl wordnet
- 5 A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
"[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page."
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- 6 the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) wordnet
- 7 A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)
"a nun's veil"
- 8 a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms wordnet
- 9 The calyptra of mosses.
- 10 velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
- 11 A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
- 12 A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
"The genus Amanita has both a volva and a veil; the spores are white, and the stem is easily separable from the cap."
- 13 An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
- 14 That which separates the living and the spirit world. figuratively
""I have heard most furious bigots talking through the veil." "So have I, for that matter," said Malone, "and in this very room.""
- 1 To dress in, or decorate with, a veil. transitive
"I'm under surface Towers veiled in silk I guess I'm not welcome In this house they built"
- 2 make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing wordnet
- 3 To conceal as with a veil. transitive
"The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly."
- 4 to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.
From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.
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