See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
veil(1)(dictionary)
veil(medicine)
veil(2)(dictionary)
aqueduct veil(medicine)
veil 1, noun(dictionary)
veil cell(medicine)
veil 2, verb(dictionary)
Sattler's veil(medicine)
Pierce The Veil(law)

veil (medicine)


veil


1. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; especially, a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. "The veil of the temple was rent in twain." (Matt. Xxvii. 51) "She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore." (Milton)

2. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. "[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page." (Shak)

3. <botany> The calyptra of mosses. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; called also velum.

4. A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.

5. <zoology> Same as Velum. To take the veil, to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun.

Origin: 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

Alternative forms: vail.

Source: Websters Dictionary