Found 4 items, similar to Veil.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: veil
kerudung
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: veil
cadar, jilbab, kerudung, tudung
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: veil
veil
n 1: a garment that covers the head and face [syn:
head covering]
2: the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates
(especially when covering the head at birth) [syn:
caul,
embryonic membrane]
3: a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman
Catholic Church; a silk shawl [syn:
humeral veil]
v 1: to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil;
“women in
Afghanistan veil their faces” [ant:
unveil]
2: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or
concealing;
“a hidden message”;
“a veiled threat” [syn:
obscure,
blot out,
obliterate,
hide]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Veil
Veil
\Veil\ (v[=a]l), n. [OE. veile, OF. veile, F. voile, L.
velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably fr. vehere to
bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship
on. See
Vehicle, and cf.
Reveal.] [Written also
vail.]
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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 diaphnous material, to
hide or protect the face.
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The veil of the temple was rent in twain. --Matt.
xxvii. 51.
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She, as a veil down to the slender waist,
Her unadorn['e]d golden tresses wore. --Milton.
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2. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
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[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the
so seeming Mistress Page. --Shak.
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3. (Bot.)
(a) The calyptra of mosses.
(b) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a
mushroom with the stalk; -- called also
velum.
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4. (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's
veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
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5. (Zo["o]l.) Same as
Velum, 3.
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To take the veil (Eccl.), to receive or be covered with, a
veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to
become a nun.
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Veil
\Veil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Veiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Veiling.] [Cf. OF. veler, F. voiler, L. velarc. See
Veil,
n.] [Written also
vail.]
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1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
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Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight,
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
--Milton.
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2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
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To keep your great pretenses veiled. --Shak.
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