1. Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover.
2. Muted or unclear.

Used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture.

ETYM Old Eng. seil, AS. segel, segl; akin to Dutch zeil, Old High Germ. segal, German and Swed. segel, Icel. segl, Dan. seil.
(Homonym: sale).
A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel; SYN. canvas, canvass, sheet.

1. Riding in a sailboat.
2. The departure of a vessel from a port.
Pleasure cruising or racing a small and light vessel, whether sailing or power-driven. At the Olympic Games, seven categories exist: Soling, Flying Dutchman, Star, Finn, Tornado, 470, and Windglider or windsurfing (boardsailing), which was introduced at the 1984 Los Angeles games. All these Olympic categories are sail-driven. The Finn and Windglider are solos events; the Soling class is for three-person crews; all other classes are for crews of two. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng. veile, Old Fren. veile, French voile, Latin velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably from vehere to bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship on. Related to Vehicle, Reveal.
1. That which veils or conceals.
2. A piece of fabric used to cover an object, such as a piece of gauze used to hide or protect the face.
3. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
4. The membrane of certain mushrooms, also called the velum. + prikaži više

1. Veil-like membrane; soft palate.
2. An annular membrane projecting inward from the margin of the umbrella in some jellyfishes (as the hydromedusae)
3. A swimming organ that is especially well developed in the later larval stages of many marine gastropods