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Veil vs Cowl - What's the difference?

veil | cowl |

As nouns the difference between veil and cowl

is that veil is something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face while cowl is a monk's hood or hooded robe.

As a verb veil

is to don, or garb with, a veil.

veil

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51
    • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
  • * Milton
    • She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
  • A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  • * Shakespeare
    • [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.
    • Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
  • The calyptra of mosses.
  • A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
  • A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
  • (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)
  • (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

    • Verb

  • To don, or garb with, a veil.
  • To conceal as with a veil.
    • The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

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    cowl

    English

    (wikipedia cowl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A monk's hood or hooded robe
  • * Alexander Pope
    • What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl ?
  • A mask that covers the majority of the head.
  • A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling
  • A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
  • (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below
  • (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge
  • (obsolete, British) A soe

    • See also

    * (l) (cowl-shaped)

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