veiled

veiled
    adj 1: having or as if having a veil or concealing cover; "a
           veiled dancer"; "a veiled hat"; "veiled threats"; "veiled
           insults" [ant: {unveiled}]
    2: muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or
       foggy"
    

Veil \Veil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Veiled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Veiling}.] [Cf. OF. veler, F. voiler, L. velarc. See {Veil},
   n.] [Written also {vail}.]
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   1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
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            Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight,
            Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
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            To keep your great pretenses veiled.  --Shak.
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Veiled \Veiled\, a.
   Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden. "Words used to convey a
   veiled meaning." --Earle.
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118 Moby Thesaurus words for "veiled":
      aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, armored, between the lines, blobby,
      blurred, blurry, broad, cased, ceiled, chance, chancy, chaotic,
      cloaked, clouded, coated, concealed, confused, coped, covered,
      covert, cowled, cryptic, curtained, delitescent, disguised,
      disordered, dormant, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased,
      enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric, filmed, floored, foggy, fuzzy,
      general, hazy, hibernating, hidden, hit-or-miss, hooded, housed,
      ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent,
      indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
      indistinct, inexact, latent, lax, loose, loricate, loricated,
      lurking, mantled, masked, muffled, mystic, nonspecific, obfuscated,
      obscure, obscured, occult, occulted, orderless, packaged, paved,
      possible, potential, random, roofed-in, screened, scummed, secret,
      shaded, shadowed forth, shadowy, shady, shapeless, sheathed,
      shelled, shielded, shrouded, sleeping, stochastic, sub rosa,
      submerged, subtle, swathed, sweeping, tented, unclear, undefined,
      under cover, under the surface, underlying, undestined,
      undetermined, unmanifested, unplain, unrevealed, unspecified,
      vague, virtual, walled, walled-in, wrapped