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over-veil, v.|əʊvəˈveɪl|
Also 6 -vayl, 7 -vail, -vale.
[over- 8.]
trans. To veil over; to cover, shroud, or obscure with or as with a veil. (Chiefly poet.)
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. ii. 2 Night is fled, Whose pitchy Mantle ouer-vayl'd the Earth. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 9 That natures obscenities be decently couered and oueruailed with her mothers mouldes. a1639Wotton Ps. civ. vi, Thou mak'st the Night to over-vail the Day. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 354 The thin wan moon, half over-veiled By clouds. |