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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 unadornéd golden tresses wore. Milton.

Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden. "Words used to convey a veiled meaning." Earle.

A fogged plate.

A veil; a thin covering; also, material for making veils.

Having no veil. Tennyson.

To cover, as with a vail. W. Browne.

To veil or cover. Shak.

s time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille." Dryden. For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott.

Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision. That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old. Sir W. Scott.

One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

One who removes a veil.

A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] -- To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. -- To beat off, to repel or drive b…

An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. [Obs.]

A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood. Sir W. Scott.

Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.

A mourning veil formerly worn by women.

rant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. Pope.