veil

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Anagrams

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

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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.

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to 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.

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• Anagrams of eilv
• evil
• Levi
• live
• vile
• vlei