Veil

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English

Noun

Veil (plural Veils)
  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 diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
    • 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 4.
      Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
  2. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  3. The calyptra of mosses.
  4. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
  5. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
  6. Same as velum, 4.
  7. (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

Verb

Veil (third-person singular simple present veils, present participle veiling, simple past and past participle veiled)

  1. To don, or garb with, a veil.
  2. To conceal as with a veil.
    The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

Adjectives for Veil

emerald; snowy; inmost; pitchy; misty; dusky; leafy; gloomy; intervening; star-studded; lucid; ugly; solemnizing; gauzy; impenetrable; twilight; obligatory; tangled; mystic; turbid; close-spun; diaphanous; hieroglyphic; sinuous; overhanging; filmy; trembling; fluttering; raw; golden-tissued; borrowed; adamantine; amethystine; fleecy; fearful; maiden.

Verbs for Veil

bare—; bedeck with—; cast off—; discard —; dispel—; divest of—; doff—; don—; drape—over; draw—; envelop in—; main¬tain—; penetrate—; rend—; suspend—over; withdraw—; —beguiles; —billows behind; —conceals; —^curtains; —deceives; —de¬ludes; —dims; —disguises; —eclipses; — mantles; —muffles; —obstructs; —obscures; —screens; —shades; —shadows.

Adverbs for Veil

curiously; unconsciously; impenetrably; skillfully; gloomily; mystically; diaphanously.

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

Etymology

From Old Northern French veile < Latin vēla, nominative plural of vēlum.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Translations

Noun

something to hide an object
covering for a person or thing
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Verb

don with a veil
conceal with a veil

Anagrams

Dutch

Verb

Veil

  1. first-person singular present indicative of veilen.
  2. imperative of veilen.

Anagrams

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