a. [f. VEIL sb.1 + -Y.] Veil-like; diaphanous.
1839. T. Miller, Rural Sk., 9. I had watched … until the veily twilight was let down from heaven.
1843. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. iv. § 6. 244. The … rain-cloud, with its ragged and spray-like edge, its veily transparency [etc.].
