veil

Meanings

• a garment that covers the head and face
• a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
• the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
• a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
• to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
  • "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"
• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
  • "a veiled threat"

Synonyms

blot out, caul, embryonic membrane, head covering, hide, humeral veil, obliterate, obscure, velum