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eed; to issue; to spring. Whence haply mention may arise Of something not unseasonable to ask. Milton.

A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. Ambition assuming the mask of religion. Porteus. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Shak.

In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised.

To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.

als . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

The things sold by auction or put up to auction. Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys Pope.

izant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs. Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook. Cowper.

To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.

Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks. -- Bafflingly, adv. -- Bafflingness, n.

about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.

n; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.

With the face uncovered; not masked. "You will play barefaced." Shak.

A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.

A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.

To bask in the sun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.