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▪ I. † velated, ppl. a.1 Obs.
[f. L. vēlāt-us: see prec.]
Covered over; veiled, hidden.
1542Becon Potat. Lent iv. H vj, But what doth it mene. That the Crosse is caried forth beynge couered with a clothe..? Phil. The Crosse so velated & couered signifieth Christ. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. A 4 By a sedulous search into their velated nature, and abscond disposition.
▪ II. ˈvelated, ppl. a.2 Zool.
[f. L. vēl-um velum.]
Furnished with a velum or sail-like membrane.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 527/2 The physiologist, in contemplating the structure of the velated arms [of the octopus], is compelled to disallow them the power of being..expanded to meet the breeze. 1895A. H. Cooke in Molluscs & Brachiopods 384 The principal agents in the deposition of the shell [of young Argonauta] are the two velated or web-like arms. |