vale vs veil
Definitions
noun
- a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
Examples
Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.
A couple of coats of new antifouling paint may cost the equivalent of a couple tanks of gas, but you will keep saving money on fuel all season long.
The authors concluded that creativity and psychotic symptomatology do indeed reflect equivalent forms of cognitive processing.
Definitions
noun
- a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
- the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
- a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
- a garment that covers the head and face
verb
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
Examples
A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses.
The coulpe or peccavi, is made for a very small matter — a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and the coulpe is made.
