Veil - Definition

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