[f. VEIL v.] That veils, covers or conceals.
a. 1672. Sterry, Freed. Will (1675), 128. God is seen by the Soul, but shadowed by this shadowy and vailing Image within which he resides.
1820. Keats, Isabella, xlvii. Then ’gan she work again; nor stay’d her care, But to throw back at times her veiling hair.
1855. Rossetti, Poems (1904), 183/1. Not till this veiling world shall cease And harvest yield its whole increase.
1867. Jean Ingelow, Story of Doom, I. 278. Then she pushed Her veiling hair back from her round, soft eyes.
