VEIL
\vˈe͡ɪl], \vˈeɪl], \v_ˈeɪ_l]\
Definitions of VEIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
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a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
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make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
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to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"
By Princeton University
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the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
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a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
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The calyptra of mosses.
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A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
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Same as Velum, 3.
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To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
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Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
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A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; - called also velum.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
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The calyptra of mosses.
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A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
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Same as Velum, 3.
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To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
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Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
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A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; - called also velum.
By Noah Webster.
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A thin, gauzy covering for the face; a covering to conceal something; a disguise.
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To cover with or as with, a curtain; hide; conceal.
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Veiled.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A curtain: anything that hides an object: a piece of muslin or thin cloth worn by ladies to shade or hide the face: a cover: a disguise.
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To cover with a veil: to cover: to conceal.
By Daniel Lyons
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A covering; curtain; thin cloth to cover the face; cover; disguise.
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To cover with a veil; cover; conceal.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To cover with a veil; hide; disguise.
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A piece of thin fabric, worn over the face; a screen; also, a disguise.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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