Word Finder - veil

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Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

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A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

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The calyptra of mosses.

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A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.

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A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)

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a nun's veil

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Velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)

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

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An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.

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To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.

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To conceal as with a veil.

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The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

The music started as Katie pulled the veil forward.

But he let them fall when Hajjaj lifted his veil and began to speak.

The oldest Egyptian or Hindoo philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue of the divinity; and still the trembling robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did, since it was I in him that was then so bold, and it is he in me that now reviews the vision.

And all at once it grew light in his soul and the veil that had till then concealed the unknown was lifted from his spiritual vision.

She barely had time to lift the veil before he took possession of her lips as well.

A ladys veil is of white muslin, embroidered at the ends in gold and colors; that of a person of the lower class is simply dyed blue.

But in the mountainous provinces of the interior and in those along the western coast, deep snow covers the ground throughout the whole winter, and the sky is usually wrapped in a veil of clouds.

Anterior tentacles form a frontal veil; foot rather broad.

Shell covered by mantle, or absent; anterior tentacles form a frontal veil; mantle contains spicules.

Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal?

Mantle-border projecting; frontal veil reduced, and often covered by the anterior border of the mantle.

This was the KaXinrTpa, or veil called Kpr t &Eµvov in Homer.

And Origen compares them to the sacred vessels, and would have them " guarded secretly behind the veil of the conscience and not lightly produced before the public."

Shell external and conical; anterior tentacles form a frontal veil; ctenidium extending only over right side; a distinct osphradium.

In her haste she dropped her veil, which the lion tore to pieces with jaws stained with the blood of an ox.

Over the head is worn the orhna or veil.

These islands increase in number as the river, without quickening its current, approaches the falls, whose nearness is indicated only by a veil of spray.

I am looking to get some decent bettas from a good breeder (opposed to the usual pet shop veil tails) Thanks 108.

She took the veil without any reason, physical or moral; it was a mere caprice.

A woman wearing a veil visits the hermitage with a baby.

The visions hardly veil the thought, and the mode of expression is usually simple, except in the Messianic passages, where the tortuousness and obscurity are perhaps intentional.

He married Hatburg, a daughter of Irwin, count of Merseburg, but as she had taken the veil on the death of a former husband this union was declared illegal by the church, and in 909 he married Matilda, daughter of a Saxon count named Thiederich, and a reputed descendant of the hero Widukind.

Her dress was of Spitalfields silk; her veil of Honiton lace; her ribbons came from Coventry; even her gloves had been made in London of English kid - a novel thing in days when the French had a monopoly in the finer kinds of gloves.

The matter seemed involved in mystery, and no one attempted to raise the veil which hung over the subject of embryogeny.

Several of the earlier events of his life, especially his marriage with the princess Louise of Orleans, and the duel that the comte d'Artois provoked by raising the veil of the princess at a masked ball, caused much scandal.

It is difficult to believe that this doctrine was ever put forward sincerely; in the most of those who professed it, it was certainly no more than a veil by which they sought to cover their heterodoxy and evade its consequences.

The veil that hides the negotiations which, during the closing months of the Franco-German War, were carried on between Bismarck and the pope, through the agency of Cardinal Bonnhose, has not yet been lifted, and perhaps never will be.

What visions beyond there may be, what larger hopes,what ultimate harmonies, if such there are in store, will come in God's good time; it is not for us to anticipate them, or lift the veil where God has left it down" (The Christian View of God and the World, 18 93, p. 397).

On the final defeat of Mordred she retires to a nunnery, takes the veil, and is no more heard of.

The princess wrote Aventures de la tour de Perse, in which, under the veil of fictitious scenes and names, she tells the history of her own time.

Laharpe, after a new visit to Paris, presented to the tsar his Reflexions on the True Nature of the Consulship for Life, which, as Alexander said, tore the veil from his eyes, and revealed Bonaparte " as not a true patriot," but only as " the most famous tyrant the world has produced."

The fact is that Melanchthon sought, not to minimize differences, but to veil them under an intentional obscurity of expression.

One other cry He uttered, and the end came, and at that moment the veil of the Temple was rent from top to bottom - an omen of fearful import to those who had mocked Him, even on the cross, as the destroyer of the Temple, who in three days should build it anew.

After this the aria "Et in spiritum sanctum," in which the next dogmatic clauses are enshrined like relics in a casket, furnishes a beautiful decorative design on which the listener can repose his mind; and then comes the voluminous ecclesiastical fugue, Confiteor unum baptisma, leading, as through the door and world-wide spaces of the Catholic Church, to that veil which is not all darkness to the eye of faith.

The rescue of Catania from fire during an eruption of Mount Etna was later attributed to St Agatha's veil.

The young couple are seated in two chairs opposite each other, their right hands tied together by a silken cord, which is gradually wound around them as the ceremony progresses, the bride in the meantime being concealed with a veil of silk or muslin.

The naturalism of which we have been speaking found free utterance now in the fabliaux of jongleurs, lyrics of minnesingers, tales of trouveres, romances of Arthur and his knights - compositions varied in type and tone, but in all of which sincere passion and real enjoyment of life pierce through the thin veil of chivalrous mysticism or of allegory with which they were sometimes conventionally draped.

Petrarch and Boccaccio, though they both held the medieval doctrine that literature should teach some abstruse truth beneath a veil of fiction, differed from Dante in this that their poetry and prose in the vernacular abandoned both allegory and symbol.

She wore long woollen robes; a veil and a kerchief for the head, her hair being plaited up with a purple band in a conical form (tutulus); and shoes made of the leather of sacrificed animals; like her husband, she carried the sacrificial knife.

Enveloped in a huge blue sheet, with a yard of linen as a veil perforated for two inches square with minute holes, the feet thrust into two huge bags of colored stuff, a wife is perfectly unrecognizable, even by her husband, when out of doors.

Even then he compelled the heiresses to take the veil.

She cannot ordain, confer the veil, nor excommunicate.

At the Shoshone Falls the river makes a sudden plunge of nearly 200 ft., and the Falls have been compared with the Niagara and Zambezi; a short distance back of the main fall is a cataract of 125 ft., the Bridal Veil.

Heloise, not yet twenty, consummated her work of self-sacrifice at the call of his jealous love, and took the veil.

She is dressed in bridal white with wreath and veil, and receives a wedding-ring, as spouse of the Church.

She thus bids adieu to all her friends, and having previously taken the white veil, the betrothal, she now assumes the black, and for ever forswears the world and its pleasures.

In Mahomet's time the outer walls were covered by a veil (or kiswa) of striped Yemen cloth.

The women assemble in the khalwas at the same time as the men, a part of the space being fenced off for them by a semi-transparent black veil.

The latter no longer carry the head-horn which used to support the veil dropped over the face out of doors.

But their dress is still black with the exception of red slippers, and the veil is never abandoned, not even, it is said, during sleep. An English lady, who has been much among them, states that the Druse women of the Hauran never unveiled before her.