Usually means: Coverings that obscure or conceal.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. veils: Merriam-Webster
  2. veils: Collins English Dictionary
  3. veils: Vocabulary.com
  4. Veil's, Veils, veil's, veils: Wordnik
  5. veils: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. veils: Wiktionary
  7. veils: Dictionary.com
  8. veils: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Veils, The veils, Veils: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. veils: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. veils: Legal dictionary

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  1. veils: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. veils: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. veils: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. VEILS: Acronym Finder
  2. veils: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Veils: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (veil)

noun:  Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
noun:  (figurative) Anything that partially obscures a clear view.
noun:  A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
noun:  A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)
noun:  (biology) The calyptra of mosses.
noun:  (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
noun:  (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
noun:  (mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
noun:  An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
noun:  (figurative, parapsychology) That which separates the living and the spirit world.
verb:  (transitive) To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
verb:  (transitive) To conceal as with a veil.
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