veil

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
• the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
• a garment that covers the head and face
• A cover
• a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church
• a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
• to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
• Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object
• The calyptra of mosses
• A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk
• A covering for a person or thing
• To throw a veil over
• Fig.: To invest

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