From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reveal \Re*veal"\, n.
1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.]
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2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or
the like, between the door frame or window frame and the
outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not
filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall;
the jamb. [Written also revel.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reveal \Re*veal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revealed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Revealing.] [F. r['e]v['e]ler, L. revelare, revelatum,
to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum
a veil. See Veil.]
1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept
secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown,
She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
--Waller.
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2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be
known or discovered without divine or supernatural
instruction or agency).
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Syn: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover;
open; discover; impart; show.
Usage: See Communicate. -- Reveal, Divulge. To reveal
is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known
what was previously concealed; to divulge is to
scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly
known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed;
something long confined to the knowledge of a few is
at length divulged. "Time, which reveals all things,
is itself not to be discovered." --Locke. "A tragic
history of facts divulged." --Wordsworth.
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