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A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.

That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.

(poetic) Appearance, likeness.

A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.

A person wearing a mask.

(obsolete) A dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.

(architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like. +

(fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.

(fortification) A screen for a battery.

(zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.

(film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.

(programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.

(computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.

(heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears. [[File:Complete Guide to Heraldry Fig345.png|right|thumb|A fox's mask.]]

To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.

To disguise as something else.

To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.

(military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

(military) To cover or keep in check.

To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

(put on a mask) To put on a mask; to wear a mask. +

(obsolete) To disguise oneself, to be disguised in any way.

(autismverb) To conceal or disguise one's autism; to learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.

(shield from paint etc) To cover or shield something, or a portion of something, so as to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting. +

(computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.

(computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.

Mesh.

(Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.

(dialectal) Mash.

(dialectal) To mash.

(dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.

(dialectal) To be infused or steeped.

(Durham) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.

(of clouds, the weather, a storm, etc) To prepare (to storm).

(dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.