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A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.

Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.

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

One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.

The dress or disguise of a maske [Obs.] Marston.

The muskellunge.

An antimask. B. Jonson.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

To mask; to conceal.

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient damask." W. Irving.

y inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

A sword of Damask steel. No old Toledo blades or damaskins. Howell

To divest of a mask. Shak.

To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal. [R.] Shak.

To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.

t that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

An antimask. [Obs. or R.] Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic. Ford.

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