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veiling

ˈveɪlɪŋ
WordNet
Pyramid under a canopy, surrounded by four veiled women with a burning torch.
Pyramid under a canopy, surrounded by four veiled women with a burning torch.
  1. (n) veiling
    a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
Illustrations
Hat veil of natural-colored lace embroidery, tambourine work on machine tulle, Lier lace. The tambourine work runs along one of the long sides and has a pattern of flower and leaf tendrils interrupted alternately by a bow and a C-scroll. An arc of rosette flowers has been made over each c-scroll. Sprinkle pattern with puffs. The veil has a faintly scalloped edge trimmed with picots on three sides. A double wavy line runs along the edge at the top, but the edge is not finished.
Hat veil of natural-colored lace embroidery, tambourine work on machine tulle, Lier lace. The tambourine work runs along one of the long sides and has a pattern of flower and leaf tendrils interrupted alternately by a bow and a C-scroll. An arc of rosette flowers has been made over each c-scroll. Sprinkle pattern with puffs. The veil has a faintly scalloped edge trimmed with picots on three sides. A double wavy line runs along the edge at the top, but the edge is not finished.
Bust portrait of Mary of Burgundy, with pointed headdress with veil. She wears a necklace and a richly decorated dress with a plunging neckline. The portrait is set in a rectangular frame with a motto in Latin. In the margin the coat of arms of the sitter and a four-line caption in French. Print from a book in which 54 prints with portraits.
Bust portrait of Mary of Burgundy, with pointed headdress with veil. She wears a necklace and a richly decorated dress with a plunging neckline. The portrait is set in a rectangular frame with a motto in Latin. In the margin the coat of arms of the sitter and a four-line caption in French. Print from a book in which 54 prints with portraits.
Mary gives Mary Magdalena de Pazzi a lily branch and covers her with a white veil. An angel helps her straighten the veil. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi kneels in the habit of the Carmelite nuns and wears a crown of thorns on her head.
Mary gives Mary Magdalena de Pazzi a lily branch and covers her with a white veil. An angel helps her straighten the veil. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi kneels in the habit of the Carmelite nuns and wears a crown of thorns on her head.
Portrait of a woman. Bust facing front, with a white gauze veil. Part of the collection of portrait miniatures.
Portrait of a woman. Bust facing front, with a white gauze veil. Part of the collection of portrait miniatures.
Bust portrait of Aleida, with veil. She is wearing a pearl necklace and a dress with a plunging neckline. The portrait is set in a rectangular frame with a motto in Latin. In the margin the coat of arms of the sitter and a four-line caption in French. Print from a book in which 54 prints with portraits.
Bust portrait of Aleida, with veil. She is wearing a pearl necklace and a dress with a plunging neckline. The portrait is set in a rectangular frame with a motto in Latin. In the margin the coat of arms of the sitter and a four-line caption in French. Print from a book in which 54 prints with portraits.
Woman with veil
Portrait bust in oval to the left of Isabella Clara Eugenia, infante of Spain, with veil. Below the portrait, a plaque contains the name of the person portrayed.
Portrait bust in oval to the left of Isabella Clara Eugenia, infante of Spain, with veil. Below the portrait, a plaque contains the name of the person portrayed.
Veiled woman with bread and a wine cup in her hands, in the background the last supper.
Veiled woman with bread and a wine cup in her hands, in the background the last supper.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Veiling
    A veil; a thin covering; also, material for making veils.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) veiling
    The act of concealing with a veil.
  2. (n) veiling
    A veil; a thin covering.
  3. (n) veiling
    Material for making veils: as, nun's-veiling; silk veiling.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Veiling
    the act of concealing with a veil: a veil: material for making veils
Quotations
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Victor Hugo
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord Chesterfield
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
Alfred Nobel
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred Nobel
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. veile (Fr. voile)—L. velum, a curtain—vehĕre, to carry.

Usage in the news

Muslim women protest French bill banning veils. ashingtonpost.com

In France, the Justice Minister brought a bill banning face-covering veils to the Cabinet Wednesday. ashingtonpost.com

The time is coming when the veil between the worlds dissolve…that's right Halloween is coming. provincetown.com

Lifting a nearly 25-year veil of secrecy, Israel is admitting that it killed the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a 1988 raid in Tunis . vancouversun.com

Lifting the veil on jobs at Marine Corps Logistics Base. fxl.com

MMM > News > Piercing the veil, but missing the value of medicine's industry ties. mmm-online.com

If I do not try, then my tears become a veil. lasentinel.net

Once she became prime minister, she gradually lifted the veil on her religious convictions. spectator.org

Tearing the Veil of Maya. nymag.com

Telluride Colorado's Bridal Veil Falls Re-Opened to Climbing. climbing.com

One of Colorado's most famed ice climbs, Bridal Veil Falls, is now open for climbing. climbing.com

If you pick up the iPod of anyone under the age of 18 you are likely to find tunes from Weezy, Gaga, Skrillex, Odd Future and Black Veil Brides. 1079ishot.com

The White House veil of secrecy. foxnews.com

Opponents say the ultrasounds are medically ineffective, a thinly-veiled attempt to thwart a woman from obtaining an abortion. readthehook.com

Global economy under 'veil of uncertainty '. cnn.com

Usage in scientific papers

This correspondence is hidden behind the veil of the Galois connection in a Galois extension of fields or more generally of division rings, see and [4, 5].
Galois Corings and a Jacobson-Bourbaki type Correspondence

We used this method, insensitive to the veiling phenomenon, to try to find over- or under-abundant species.
Characterisation of the magnetic field of the Herbig Be star HD 200775

Another possible origin of the difference in Class II and III LX for a given Lbol or SA is that the disk-bearing YSOs are over-luminous in Lbol due to veiling, which leads to an over estimation of their bolometric luminosity (Cieza et al. 2005).
The Properties of X-ray Luminous Young Stellar Objects in the NGC 1333 and Serpens Embedded Clusters

In Winston et al. (2009) we estimate veiling of up to 0.3 dex in Lbol .
The Properties of X-ray Luminous Young Stellar Objects in the NGC 1333 and Serpens Embedded Clusters

After the first exploration step the vertex v is marked as dead, its immediate neighbors as active and all the remaining vertices as veiled.
Random networks with sublinear preferential attachment: The giant component

Usage in literature

Clouds that had darkened the east when Vanno started veiled the sun now, like lazy eyelids. "The Guests Of Hercules" by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

One of them was covered with a damp cloth, the other with a muslin veil. "The Eternal City" by Hall Caine

A thick veil covered her face, but her figure was girlish. "Everyman's Land" by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

The veiled lady entered the house in a manner that might have suggested to a countryman that she was one of the family. "Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist" by Harlan Page Halsey

Beside this terrible Turk stood five ladies, in baggy trousers, and long veils. "Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks" by Bracebridge Hemyng

Her cheeks were hot behind her thin veil. "The Coast of Chance" by Esther Chamberlain

God in his mercy veils the future, or who could bear the burden of coming woe! "Ernest Linwood" by Caroline Lee Hentz

But at present she is waiting for you to take her by the hand and raise her veil. "The Magic City" by Edith Nesbit

Her veil fluttered back; her cloak brushed his shoulder. "The Black Cross" by Olive M. Briggs

The night was far gone, but the moon was full, and now spread its veil of silver mist over all the hills and fields. "Before the Dawn" by Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Usage in poetry
Or at the altar of the shrine
Holds high the mystic sacrifice,
And shows a God to human eyes
Beneath the veil of bread and wine.
"Rome Unvisited" by Oscar Wilde Author object (520)
Was muffled up and hidden by the fold
Of a dark veil, through which
No light came, or a feature to behold,
Or even voice to teach.
"The Two Angels" by Alexander Anderson
"'Twas chill," he said, "a hazy night,
Just as the light began to fail,
Sir Guyon came and brought with him
The Ladie in the veil:
"The Dark Ladie" by Anne Bannerman
He has drawn aside a velvet shroud,
That hung from the marble wall;
He has kneeled down within the veil,
He spoke not once at all !
"The Penitent's Confession" by Anne Bannerman
The rapt brow of the Desert John;
The awful glory of that day
When all the Father's brightness shone
Through manhood's veil of clay.
"Raphael" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)
Sometimes a goddess, hid in veils of light,
Came downward from a cloud,
Shedding around her such a wild delight,
I almost spoke aloud.
"In Tempe" by Alexander Anderson