0 to take off your hat or other head covering as a mark of respect to someone:
Crowned heads vailed before the statue of Beethoven, doing homage to the royalty of genius.
When the flag is vailed on Remembrance Sunday, it is not considered as a desecration.
At that moment the fog lifted up from the surface of the sea, as if a vail or scroll had been raised.
Her face they do not see, as a gauze vail hides it from mortal view.
We do not see through the thin vail, which separates the world of spirits and men.
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
Then by a rapid movement, the visitor pulled the vail again over her face.
She has put on the robe and vail; and now she has sent me down to make the bouquet.
She had flashed a keen, quick glance from one to the other; had dropped her vail suddenly over her face, and turned away.
She had flung back her vail, and in her white and ghastly face and dilated violet eyes you could read a waiting look.
