meaning of mask
1. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancers mask; a fencers mask; a ball players mask.
2. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
3. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
4. A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
5. A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
6. In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
7. A screen for a battery.
8. The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
9. Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
10. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
11. To disguise; to cover; to hide.
12. To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
13. To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.
14. To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
15. To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
16. activity that tries to conceal something; "no mask could conceal his ignorance"; "they moved in under a mask of
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