veil : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: veil	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for veil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
veil n a garment that covers the head and face [syn: {head covering}, veil] a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms Synonym(s): veil, velum the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) Synonym(s): caul, veil, embryonic membrane a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl Synonym(s): humeral veil, veil v to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces" Antonym(s): unveil make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" Synonym(s): obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vail \Vail\, v. i. To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also {vale}, and {veil}.] [Obs.] Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vail \Vail\, v. t. [Aphetic form of avale. See {Avale}, {Vale}.] [Written also {vale}, and {veil}.] 1. To let fail; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.] Vail your regard Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid! --Shak. 2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like. France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! --Shak. Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic. --Sir. W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Veil \Veil\ (v[amac]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}.] 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. The veil of the temple was rent in twain. --Matt. xxvii. 51. She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorn[82]d 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. (Bot.) (a) The calyptra of mosses. (b) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also {velum}. 4. (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. 5. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Velum}, 3. {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.] 1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. 2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. To keep your great pretenses veiled. --Shak.