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| veil [ vayl ] |
noun (plural veils) |
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1. face covering worn by women: a length of fabric, usually sheer, worn by women over the head and face as a concealment or for protection
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2. netting attached to woman's hat: a piece of netting or other sheer fabric attached to a woman's hat and covering the eyes
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3. nun's headdress: a part of a nun's headdress covering the sides and back of the head
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4. nun's vows or life: the vows that a nun takes, or the life that she leads
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5. means of concealment: something that hides, disguises, or obscures something, or separates one thing from another
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6. botany membrane covering young mushroom: a thin membrane that covers the cap and stalk of an immature mushroom
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7. anatomy
Same as caul (sense 1)
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8. christianity
Same as humeral veil
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verb (past and past participle veiled, present participle veil·ing, 3rd person present singular veils) |
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1. transitive verb cover something with veil: to cover something such as somebody's face with a veil
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2. transitive verb hide something: to hide or disguise something, or separate one thing from another
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3. intransitive verb wear veil: to put on or wear a veil
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| [12th century. Via Old French veile< Latin vela "covering," plural of velum "sail"] |
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draw a veil over something to ignore something deliberately or refrain from mentioning it, in order to be discreet
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take the veil to become a nun (literary)
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