Definition of veil

"veil" in the noun sense

1. head covering, veil

a garment that covers the head and face

2. veil, velum

a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

3. caul, veil, embryonic membrane

the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

4. humeral veil, veil

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

"veil" in the verb sense

1. veil

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

"women in Afghanistan veil their faces"

2. obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide

make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

"a hidden message"

"a veiled threat"

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Quotations for veil

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved.
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved. [ Wordsworth ]

The day begins to break, and night is fled.
Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. [ Hare ]

Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing. [ Bacon ]

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. [ Whipple ]

Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised. [ Landor ]

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

In delicate souls, love never presents itself but under the veil of esteem. [ Mme. Roland ]

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. [ Pope ]

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. [ Beaconsfield ]

O sweet past! sometimes remembrance raises thy long veil, then we weep in recognizing thee! [ Mme. Louise Labe ]

The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil, the future, the virgin's. [ Richter ]

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness. [ Fontanelle ]

Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty. [ Richter ]

A thin aerial veil is drawn over beauty's face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. [ Crashaw ]

Midnight, - strange mystic hour, - when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! [ Alexander Smith ]

That chastity of look which seems to hang a veil of purest light over all her beauties, and by forbidding most inflames desire. [ Young ]

The reason why the character of woman is so often misunderstood, is that it is the beautiful nature of woman to veil her soul as her charms. [ F. Schlegel ]

Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes. [ Plutarch ]

O, if we could tear aside the veil, and see but for one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be! [ Horace Bushnell ]

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil - and hath it not? - then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them. [ Hawthorne ]

Nature, mysterious even under the light of day, is not to be robbed of her veil; and what she does not choose to reveal you will not extort from her with levers and screws. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. [ Boileau ]

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass. [ Hazlitt ]

Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]

veil in Scrabble®

The word veil is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters veil:

VEIL
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VILE
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word veil

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veil in Words With Friends™

The word veil is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters veil:

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VEIL
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The 158 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In veil

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Word Growth involving veil

Shorter words in veil

(No shorter words found)

Longer words containing veil

sousveillance sousveillances

surveil resurveil resurveillance

surveil resurveil resurveilled

surveil resurveil resurveilling

surveil resurveil resurveils

surveil surveiled

surveil surveiling

surveil surveillance countersurveillance countersurveillances

surveil surveillance resurveillance

surveil surveillant

surveil surveils resurveils

surveil unsurveilled

unveil unveiled

unveil unveiling

unveil unveils

veiled surveiled

veiled unveiled

veiled veiledly

veiled veiledness

veiler veilers

veilier

veiliest

veiling surveiling

veiling unveiling

veiling veilings

veilless

veilleuse veilleuses

veillike

veilmaker veilmakers

veilmaking

veils surveils resurveils

veils unveils

veiltail veiltails

veily