MASK

Definitions

1. 1. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor. They must all be masked and vizarded. Shak.
2. 2. To disguise; to cover; to hide. Masking the business from the common eye. Shak.
3. 3. To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
4. 4. 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.