Veiled

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Veil \Veil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Veiled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Veiling}.] [Cf. OF. veler, F. voiler, L. velarc. See {Veil},
     n.] [Written also {vail}.]
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     1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
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              Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight,
              Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
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              To keep your great pretenses veiled.  --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Veiled \Veiled\, a.
     Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden. "Words used to convey a
     veiled meaning." --Earle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  veiled
       adj 1: having or as if having a veil or concealing cover; "a veiled
              dancer"; "a veiled hat"; "veiled threats"; "veiled
              insults" ; "the night-veiled landscape" [ant: {unveiled}]
       2: muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or
          foggy"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "veiled":
     aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, armored, between the lines, blobby,
     blurred, blurry, broad, cased, ceiled, chance, chancy, chaotic,
     cloaked, clouded, coated, concealed, confused, coped, covered,
     covert, cowled, cryptic, curtained, delitescent, disguised,
     disordered, dormant, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased,
     enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric, filmed, floored, foggy, fuzzy,
     general, hazy, hibernating, hidden, hit-or-miss, hooded, housed,
     ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent,
     indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
     indistinct, inexact, latent, lax, loose, loricate, loricated,
     lurking, mantled, masked, muffled, mystic, nonspecific, obfuscated,
     obscure, obscured, occult, occulted, orderless, packaged, paved,
     possible, potential, random, roofed-in, screened, scummed, secret,
     shaded, shadowed forth, shadowy, shady, shapeless, sheathed,
     shelled, shielded, shrouded, sleeping, stochastic, sub rosa,
     submerged, subtle, swathed, sweeping, tented, unclear, undefined,
     under cover, under the surface, underlying, undestined,
     undetermined, unmanifested, unplain, unrevealed, unspecified,
     vague, virtual, walled, walled-in, wrapped