*veil*

v. t. To veil or cover. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réveil, fr. réveiller to awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken by mistake from the French imper. réveillez, 2d pers. pl. See Vigil. ] (Mil.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. “Sound a reveille.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. surveiller to watch over; sur over + veiller to watch, L. vigilare. See Sur-, and Vigil. ] Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision. [ 1913 Webster ]

That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Surveillants [ F., fr. surveiller to watch over. See Surveillance. ] One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Overseeing; watchful. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To remove a veil; to reveal one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + veil. ] To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who removes a veil. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The veil of the temple was rent in twain. Matt. xxvii. 51. [ 1913 Webster ]

She, as a veil down to the slender waist,
Her unadornéd golden tresses wore. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cover; a disguise; a mask; a pretense. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ I will ] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Same as Velum, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Veiled p. pr. & vb. n. Veiling. ] [ Cf. OF. veler, F. voiler, L. velarc. See Veil, n. ] [ Written also vail. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight,
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. [ 1913 Webster ]

To keep your great pretenses veiled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden. “Words used to convey a veiled meaning.” Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Photog.) A fogged plate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A veil; a thin covering; also, material for making veils. [ 1913 Webster ]