1. A garment that covers the head and face
   "She wore a veil in accordance with her religious beliefs";
   - head covering
    
2. A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
   "The priest carefully draped the humeral veil over his shoulders before the benediction";
   - humeral veil
    
3. A membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
   "The mushroom's veil tore as the cap expanded";
   - velum
    
4. The inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
   "The baby was born with the veil intact";
   - caul, embryonic membrane

1. To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
   "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"
    
2. Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
   "a veiled threat";
   - obscure, blot out, obliterate, hide

Sounds like: use, yews, ewes, youse, yousl, vei

Derived forms: veiled, veiling, veils

Type of: alter, change, conceal, fetal membrane, garment, hide, modify, plant part, plant structure, vestment

Antonym: unveil

Part of: placenta

Encyclopedia: Veil