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Disguise   /dɪsgˈaɪz/   Listen
verb
Disguise  v. t.  (past & past part. disguised; pres. part. disguising)  
1.
To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. "Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner."
2.
To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions. "All God's angels come to us disguised."
3.
To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. "I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship."
Synonyms: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See Conceal.


noun
Disguise  n.  
1.
A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties. "There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride."
2.
Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show. "That eye which glances through all disguises."
3.
Change of manner by drink; intoxication.
4.
A masque or masquerade. (Obs.) "Disguise was the old English word for a masque."





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"Disguise" Quotes from Famous Books



... house clear of the expressman and Louise safe in bed, the storekeeper had proceeded to disguise himself as he ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... conscious of a ray of hope in his mind. He was a kind-hearted man, in his way, this Maurice Gordon of Loango; but he could not disguise from himself the simple fact that the death of Victor Durnovo would be a distinct convenience and a most desirable relief. Even the best of us—that is to say, the present writer and his reader—have these inconvenient little feelings. There are people ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... this tedious disguise to one who wishes to see thee? Discover thyself to him, who fears thee not in whatever shape ...
— Faustus - his Life, Death, and Doom • Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
... camped the snow is worse than I have ever seen it, but we are in a hollow. Every step here one sinks to the knees and the uneven surface is obviously insufficient to support the sledges. Perhaps this wind is a blessing in disguise, already it seems to be hardening the snow. All this soft snow is an aftermath of our prolonged storm. Hereabouts Shackleton found hard blue ice. It seems an extraordinary difference in fortune, and at every step S.'s ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... decisive battle,—and Mrs. Barker was compelled to sue for peace. "Had Mr. Troubridge been true to himself," she said, "she would never have submitted;" but, having given Tom warning, and Tom, in a moment of irritation, having told her, without hesitation or disguise, to go to the devil (no less), she bowed ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley


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