Veil (botany)
WordNet
noun
(1) A garment that covers the head and face
(2) A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
(3) The inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
verb
(4) Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"A hidden message"
"A veiled threat"
(5) To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
"Women in Afghanistan veil their faces"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- 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.
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 4.
- A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
- The calyptra of mosses.
- A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
- A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
- Same as velum, 4.
- A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
Verb
- To don, or garb with, a veil.
- To conceal as with a veil.
- The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.