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Definition of Veil

1. Noun. A garment that covers the head and face.

2. Verb. To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil. "Women in Afghanistan veil their faces"

3. Noun. A membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms.

4. Verb. Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing. "A veiled threat"

5. Noun. The inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth).

6. Noun. A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl.

Definition of Veil

1. n. 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.

2. v. t. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.

3. n. 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.

4. v. t. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.

Definition of Veil

1. Noun. 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 diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face. ¹

2. Noun. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. ¹

3. Noun. The calyptra of mosses. ¹

4. Noun. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum. ¹

5. Noun. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil. ¹

6. Noun. Same as velum, 4. ¹

7. Noun. (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom. ¹

8. Verb. To don, or garb with, a veil. ¹

9. Verb. To conceal as with a veil. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Veil

1. to provide with a veil (a piece of sheer fabric worn over the face) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Veil

1. 1. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; especially, a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. "The veil of the temple was rent in twain." (Matt. Xxvii. 51) "She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore." (Milton) 2. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. "[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page." (Shak) 3. The calyptra of mosses. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; called also velum. 4. A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. 5. Same as Velum. To take the veil, to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun. Origin: 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 Alternative forms: vail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Veil

vehicularly vehicularly challenged vehicularly housed vehiculary vehiculate vehiculated vehiculates vehiculating vehiculation vehiculations

vehiculatory vehm vehme vehmic vehmique veil cell veiled veiled accusation veiled cell veiled cells

veiledly veiler veilers veilier veiliest veiling veiling glare veilings veilless

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