1. (noun)head covering, veil a garment that covers the head and face
2. (noun)veil, velum a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
3. (noun)caul, veil, embryonic membrane the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
4. (verb)humeral veil, veil a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
5. (verb)veil to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"
6. (verb)obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
Definitions of 'VEIL'
Webster 1913 Dictionary
1. (noun)VEIL 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. (noun)VEIL a cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense
3. (noun)VEIL the calyptra of mosses
4. (noun)VEIL a membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum
5. (noun)VEIL a covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil
6. (noun)VEIL same as Velum, 3
7. (noun)VEIL to throw a veil over; to cover with a veil
8. (noun)VEIL fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal
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