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A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.

Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon.

A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.

A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

inth with rich inlay Broidered the ground. Milton. The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms. Tennyson.

A mask; a pageant; an interlude. [Obs.] Nares. He promised us, in honor of our guest, To grace our banquet with some pompous jest. Kyd.

Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.

Masked; clothed as with a mask.

me next preceding the present time. How long is't now since last yourself and I Were in a mask Shak.

eside the still waters. Ps. xxiii. 2. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Content, though blind, had I no better guide. Milton.

Strong desire; passion. (Archaic.) Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others. De Quincey.

A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.

A mask; a masquerade.

An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.

One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.

To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask. With mumming and with masking all around. Spenser.

One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon. Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. Milton.

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton.

Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maskallonge, maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and muskelunjeh.]

To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [R.] "A personated mate." Milton.