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verb

Mask v. t. (past & past part. masked; pres. part. masking)

1.

To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor. "They must all be masked and vizarded."

2.

To disguise; to cover; to hide. "Masking the business from the common eye."

3.

(Mil.)

(a)

To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

(b)

To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortress by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

Mask v. i.

1.

To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

2.

To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.

adjective

Masked adj.

1.

Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden.

2.

(Bot.) Same as Personate.

3.

(Zool.) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; said of birds.

Masked ball, a ball in which the dancers wear masks.

Masked battery (Mil.), a battery so placed as not to be seen by an enemy until it opens fire.

Masked crab (Zool.), a European crab (Corystes cassivelaunus) with markings on the carapace somewhat resembling a human face.

Masked pig (Zool.), a Japanese domestic hog (Sus pliciceps). Its face is deeply furrowed.

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Etymology of 'Masked'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Masked" Quotes from Famous Books

... were bound to consult him." If this was intended for irony, it was so well masked that George was not able to be sure ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... depended upon! I am sure I think what a fool I am for consulting them at all." She espies, for her trade of sin hath made keen her eye, the venerable figure of Judge Sleepyhorn advancing up the hall, masked. "Couldn't get along without you," she lisps, tripping towards him, and greeting him with the familiarity of an intimate friend. "I'm rather aristocratic, you'll say!—and I confess I am, though a democrat in principle!" And Madame Flamingo confirms what she ...

— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams

... go before this masked scoundrel. The density of his mask was an increasing wonder to me. Bates was the most incomprehensible human being I had ever known. I had been torn with a thousand conflicting emotions since I overheard him discussing the state of affairs at Glenarm House with Pickering ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

... in one direction, the present war with Russia bears startling witness. But it is certainly to the long discipline of the past that she owes the moral strength behind this unexpected display of aggressive power. No superficial observation could discern the silent energies masked by the resignation of the people to change,—the unconscious heroism informing this mass of forty million souls, the compressed force ready to expand at Imperial bidding either for construction or destruction. From the leaders of a nation with such a military ...

— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn

... still for a while. Then drawing quickly at his pipe, he found that it was smoked out. He arose to tap the bowl upon the bars of the grate. But they were masked and muffled by Mrs Bowldler's screen of shavings, and he wandered to the open window to knock out the ashes upon the slate ledge. Returning to the fireplace, he reached out a hand for the tobacco-jar, but arrested ...

— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch

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