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noun. A length of cloth worn over the head, shoulders, and often the face, especially by women.

noun. A length of netting attached to a woman's hat or habit, worn for decoration or to protect the head and face.

noun. A length of protective netting worn over the face by beekeepers.

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noun. The part of a nun's headdress that frames the face and falls over the shoulders.

noun. The life or vows of a nun.

noun. Any of various cloth head coverings worn by Muslim women.

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noun. A piece of light fabric hung to separate or conceal what is behind it; a curtain.

noun. Something that conceals, separates, or screens like a curtain.

noun. A membranous covering or part, as that on the developing fruiting body of certain mushrooms; a velum.

intransitive verb. To cover with or as if with a veil.

intransitive verb. To conceal or disguise.

intransitive verb. To wear a veil.

To cover with a veil, as the face, or face and head; cover the face of with a veil.

To invest; enshroud; envelop; hide.

Figuratively, to conceal; mask; disguise.

noun. A cloth or other fabric or material intended to conceal something from the eye; a curtain.

noun. A piece of stuff, usually very light and more or less transparent, as lawn or lace, intended to conceal, wholly or in part, the features from close observation, while not materially obstructing the vision of the wearer; hence, such a piece of stuff forming a head-dress or part of a head-dress, especially for women.

noun. Hence, anything that prevents observation; a covering, mask, or disguise; also, a pretense.

noun. A scarf tied to or hanging from a pastoral staff. See ovarium, 3, sudarium , vexillum, and banderole, 1 .

noun. In anatomy and zoology, a velum.

noun. In botany: In Hymenomycetes, same as velum, 2 .

noun. In Discomycetes, a membranous or fibrous coating stretching over the mouth of the cup.

noun. In mosses, same as calyptra, 1 .

noun. In phonation, an obscuration of the clearness of the tones, either from a natural conformation of the larynx or from some accidental condition, as fatigue or a cold.

transitive verb. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.

transitive verb. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.

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 diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.

noun. A cover; a disguise; a mask; a pretense.

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noun. The calyptra of mosses.

noun. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

noun. A covering for a person or thing

noun. Same as Velum, 3.

noun. to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun.

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.

noun. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

noun. The calyptra of mosses.

noun. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

noun. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.

noun. Same as velum, 4.

noun. A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

verb. To don, or garb with, a veil.

verb. To conceal as with a veil.

verb. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

noun. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl

noun. a garment that covers the head and face

verb. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil