veil - What does it mean?

'veil' hits on the web

(en-noun)

Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.

* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51

The veil of the temple was rent in twain.

* Milton

She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.

A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

* Shakespeare

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

* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.

Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.

The calyptra of mosses.

A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

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

(zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)

(mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

To don, or garb with, a veil.

To conceal as with a veil.

The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.