Crossword-Solution: MASK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mask | n. | 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. |
| Mask | n. | That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. |
| Mask | n. | A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show. |
| Mask | n. | A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters. |
| Mask | n. | A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron. |
| Mask | n. | In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere. |
| Mask | n. | A screen for a battery. |
| Mask | n. | The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ. |
| Mask | v. t. | To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor. |
| Mask | v. t. | To disguise; to cover; to hide. |
| Mask | v. t. | To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. |
| Mask | v. t. | 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. |
| Mask | v. i. | To take part as a masker in a masquerade. |
| Mask | v. i. | To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MASK | anagram | KASM, MKSA |
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Sentences with MASK (5)
Here Love his golden shafts imploies, here lights His constant Lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile Of Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, nor in Court Amours Mixt Dance, or wanton Mask, or Midnight Bal, Or Serenate, which the starv’d Lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.
The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?” The Fox and the Mask A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.
Bathsheba it certainly was, and she had by this time done the trick she could do so well in crises not of love, namely, mask a surprise by coolness of manner.
Suddenly he observed a face glaring down on him and began to be very frightened; but looking more closely he found it was only a Mask such as actors use to put over their face.
The very contiguity of his enemy, beneath whatever mask the latter might conceal himself, was enough to disturb the magnetic sphere of a being so sensitive as Arthur Dimmesdale.
Quotes with MASK (3)
Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!... Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!... Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is
Do you think you wear a mask?’‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’‘It’s a sad thought.’‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 259 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).