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veil    音标拼音: [v'el]
n. 面纱,面罩,借口,幕,帐,遮蔽物
vt. 戴面纱,隐藏,遮蔽,掩饰
vi. 蒙上面纱

面纱,面罩,藉口,幕,帐,遮蔽物戴面纱,隐藏,遮蔽,掩饰蒙上面纱

veil
n 1: a garment that covers the head and face [synonym: {head
covering}, {veil}]
2: a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body
of certain mushrooms [synonym: {veil}, {velum}]
3: the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates
(especially when covering the head at birth) [synonym: {caul},
{veil}, {embryonic membrane}]
4: a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman
Catholic Church; a silk shawl [synonym: {humeral veil}, {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" [synonym:
{obscure}, {blot out}, {obliterate}, {veil}, {hide}]

Vail \Vail\, v. t. [Aphetic form of avale. See {Avale}, {Vale}.]
[Written also {vale}, and {veil}.]
1. To let fall; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.]
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Vail your regard
Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!
--Shak.
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2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence,
submission, or the like.
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France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! --Shak.
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Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any
reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic.
--Sir. W.
Scott.
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Vail \Vail\ (v[=a]l), v. i.
To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by
yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also {vale}, and
{veil}.] [Obs.]
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Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
--South.
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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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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; a 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. (Zool.) 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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Caul \Caul\ (k[add]l), n. [OE. calle, kelle, prob. fr. F. cale;
cf. Ir. calla a veil.]
1. A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a
net. --Spenser.
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2. (Anat.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers
more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great
omentum. See {Omentum}.
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The caul serves for the warming of the lower belly.
--Ray.
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3. A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the
fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its
birth; -- called also a {veil}.
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It is deemed lucky to be with a caul or membrane
over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible
preservative against drowning . . . According to
Chrysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for
magic uses. --Grose.
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I was born with a caul, which was advertised for
sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen
guineas. --Dickens.
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160 Moby Thesaurus words for "veil":
alibi, apology, apply to, awning, bamboo curtain,
barrier of secrecy, beach umbrella, becloud, befog, blackout,
blanket, blind, block, bosom, camouflage, canopy, censorship,
classify, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, color, coloring, conceal,
cope, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, coverage, covering,
covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, curtain, device, disguise,
dissemble, distract attention from, drape, drapery,
draw the curtains, eclipse, enclose, ensconce, enshroud, envelop,
enwrap, excuse, facade, false front, feint, file and forget, film,
front, gloss, gloss over, guise, handle, hanging, hide,
hold out on, hood, housing, hush-up, in petto, invest,
iron curtain, ironbound security, keep, keep back, keep between us,
keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from,
keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug,
keep under cover, keep under wraps, lame excuse, lay on, lay over,
light shield, locus standi, make no sign, mantilla, mantle, mask,
muffle, never let on, not give away, not tell, oath of secrecy,
obduce, obfuscate, obscure, occult, official secrecy,
ostensible motive, overlay, overshadow, overspread, pall, parasol,
play dumb, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext,
protestation, public motive, put on, put-off, refuge, repression,
screen, scum, seal of secrecy, secrete, security, semblance, shade,
shader, shadow, sham, shelter, shield, show, shroud, shutter,
slur over, smoke screen, smothering, spread over, stalking-horse,
stifling, stratagem, subterfuge, sunblind, sunshade, superimpose,
superpose, suppression, trick, umbrella, varnish, veil of secrecy,
veiler, veiling, vestment, whitewash, withhold, wrap, wraps,
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