veil 
veil (vāl)
noun
- a piece of light fabric, as of net or gauze, worn, esp. by women, over the face or head or draped from a hat to conceal, protect, or enhance the face
- any piece of cloth used as a concealing or separating screen or curtain
- anything like a veil in that it covers or conceals a veil of mist, a veil of silence
- a part of a nun's headdress, draped along the sides of the face and over the shoulders
- the state or life of a nun: chiefly in take the veil, to become a nun
- humeral veil
- Dialectal caul
- Biol. velum
Etymology: ME veile, veil, sail, curtain < NormFr < L vela, neut. pl., taken as fem., of velum, sail, cloth, curtain < IE base *weg-, to weave, attach, a textile > OIr figim, I weave, OE wecca, wick
transitive verb
- to cover with or as with a veil
- to conceal, hide, disguise, screen, obscure, etc.
veil
n.
Object
- allusion: Apart from being a common liturgical convention in the psalms is this a thinly veiled allusion to the Trinity?
- threat: All this has led to thinly veiled threats of US action against the country.
Converse of object
- pierce: Also, Nevada has a certain attitude about piercing the corporate veil, which is why major corporations domicile in Nevada.
- lift: Trying to lift the veil behind London Fashion Week isn't easy.
- wear: She was then made to wear the veil or else she would get acid in her face.
- draw: I am sorry I am obliged to draw a veil over the most exciting details.
- penetrate: A couple of party members penetrate the veil only to be paralyzed by some ghouls.
Adjective modifier
- bridal: The bride's dress was of white figured silk, her bridal veil was caught up with a wreath of orange blossom.
- thin: In mosses, the thin veil or hood covering the mouth of the capsule.
- Islamic: It is not their choice and indeed speaking of the choice of the Islamic veil by the child herself is a ridiculous joke.
- corporate: In fact, the corporate veil has only been pierced two times in Nevada in the last 23 years!
Modifying Another Word
- thinly: Without doubt, we execute the death penalty with a thinly veiled racial bias.
Noun used with modifier
- hen: A great hen night option with your hen night veil, they'll see you coming in this one.
Preposition: of
- secrecy: Two lawsuits filed by former workers at the facility allege that the Air Force used the veil of secrecy to cover up environmental crimes.
- ignorance: The late John Rawls, the Harvard philosopher used a tool called " the veil of ignorance " .
- softness: A veil of softness in harmony of your perfume Offer yourself a moment of serenity.
- mist: Next day, veils of mist parted beneath us to reveal a thick carpet of frost below our sun kissed eerie.
- illusion: In the things of the world have they rested their trust; they seek Truth in the veil of illusion.
- darkness: And no spectacle, but a great vague danger, unsympathetic shadows and veils of darkness.
Iguess I'mjust anoldmad scientist at bottom.Givemean underground laboratory, half a dozen atomsmashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
Even forms and substances are circumfused By that transparent veil with light divine, And, through the turnings intricate of verse, Present themselves as objects recognised, In flashes, and with glory not their own.
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
It was as if a veil had been torn suddenly away; I had understood, I had grasped what painting could be.
And every warrior that is rapt with love Of fame, of valour, and of victory, Must needs have beauty beat on his conceits: I thus conceiving and subduing both, That which hath stopped the tempest of the gods, Even from the fiery-spangled veil of heaven, To feel the lovely warmth of shepherds'flames, And march in cottages of strowe' d weeds, Shall give the world to note, for all my birth, That virtue solely is the sum of glory, And fashions men with true nobility.
Jesus, whenhehad cried againwith a loud voice, yielded up theghost. And behold, the veil of thetemple wasrent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose.
And thesunwasdarkened, andtheveilofthetemplewas rent in the midst.
And like a dying lady, lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil.
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