Crossword-Solution: VEIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Veil | n. | Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. |
| Veil | n. | A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. |
| Veil | n. | The calyptra of mosses. |
| Veil | n. | A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum. |
| Veil | n. | A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. |
| Veil | n. | Same as Velum, 3. |
| Veil | n. | To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. |
| Veil | n. | Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VEIL | anagram | EVIL, IVEL, LEVI, LIEV, LIVE, VILE, VLEI |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with VEIL (5)
Thee Father first they sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal King; thee Author of all being, Fountain of Light, thy self invisible Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sit’st Thron’d inaccessible, but when thou shad’st The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud Drawn round about thee like a radiant Shrine, Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appeer, Yet dazle Heav’n, that brightest Seraphim Approach not, but with both wings veil thir eyes.
She wore a man’s long ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier), and a round plush cap, tied down with a thick veil.
She had dressed the hive with herbs and honey, fetched a ladder, brush, and crook, made herself impregnable with armour of leather gloves, straw hat and large gauze veil—once green but now faded to snuff colour—and ascended a dozen rungs of the ladder.
But, as thoughts are frozen and utterance benumbed, unless the speaker stand in some true relation with his audience, it may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive, though not the closest friend, is listening to our talk; and then, a native reserve being thawed by this genial consciousness, we may prate of the circumstances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil.
People rattling Londonwards peered into the darkness outside the carriage windows, and saw only a rare, flickering, vanishing spark dance up from the direction of Horsell, a red glow and a thin veil of smoke driving across the stars, and thought that nothing more serious than a heath fire was happening.
Quotes with VEIL (3)
O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing ha…
One picture puzzle piece Lyin' on the sidewalk, One picture puzzle piece Soakin' in the rain. It might be a button of blue On the coat of the woman Who lived in a shoe. It might be a magical bean, Or a fold in the red Velvet robe of a queen. It might be the one little bite Of the apple her stepmother Gave to Snow White. It might be the veil of a bride Or a bottle with some evil genie inside. It might be a small tuft of hair On the big bouncy belly Of Bobo the Bear. It might b…
A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld, — The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, — Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 224 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).