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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The veil of the temple was rent in twain. --Matt. xxvii. 51. [1913 Webster] She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorn['e]d golden tresses wore. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. [1913 Webster] [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. [1913 Webster] 5. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Velum, 3. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] 1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. [1913 Webster] Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. [1913 Webster] To keep your great pretenses veiled. --Shak. [1913 Webster]