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verb

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

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."

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

(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.

To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

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

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Etymology of 'Masking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Masking" Quotes from Famous Books

... began to poison for vengeance that retribution fell upon her. Her fondness for the bottle started to get her into trouble. It made her touchy. Up to 1841 she had poisoned for the pleasure of it, masking her secret turpitude with an outward show of piety, of being helpful in time of trouble. By the time she arrived in Rennes, in 1848, after seven years during which her murderous proclivities seem to have slept, her character as a worker, if not as a Christian, ...

— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure

... effectively produced on a small stage by a blue-green back-drop with a single conventionalized cherry-branch painted across it, and two three-leaved screens masking the wings, painted in blue-green with a ...

— King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays • Floyd Dell

... done, Romeo watched the place where the lady stood; and under favour of his masking habit, which might seem to excuse in part the liberty, he presumed in the gentlest manner to take her by the hand, calling it a shrine, which if he profaned by touching it, he was a blushing pilgrim, and would kiss it for atonement. "Good pilgrim," ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

... me I ever credited him so much: but now I see what he is, and that his masking vizor is off, I'll forbear him no longer. All his lands are mortgaged to me, and forfeited; besides, I have bonds of his in my hand, for the receipt of now fifty pounds now a hundred, now two hundred; still, as he has had a fan but wagged at him, he would be in a new suit. ...

— Every Man Out Of His Humour • Ben Jonson

... morning until nightfall, he worked with the camouflage men, masking the batteries and cutting leafy branches for screening the stores of ammunition ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

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