1. mask - Noun
2. mask - Verb
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.
A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
A screen for a battery.
The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
To disguise; to cover; to hide.
To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
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.
To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. Chinua Achebe
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. Katherine Mansfield
Pride is the mask of one's own faults. Jewish Proverb
Pride is the mask of our sins. Palestinian Proverb
Innocence itself sometimes hath need of a mask. Polish Proverb