Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To veil.
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- verb Alternative form of
inveil .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mahometan; the horsemen urged forward, like the letting loose of seas that surged, clad in mail, as they were mackerel-back clouds which the moon enveil; whereupon the two hosts clashed, like two torrents on each other dashed.
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Presently there appeared beneath it the banners Islamitan and the ensigns Mahometan; the horsemen urged forward, like the letting loose of seas that surged, clad in mail, as they were mackerel-back clouds which the moon enveil; whereupon the two hosts clashed, like two torrents on each other dashed.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Nor slaves nor camels that run have I; * Nor slave-girls the litters enveil, ah, no! But grant me union and soon shalt sight * My trenchant blade with the foeman's woe;
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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