Word Meanings - MASK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more

Additional info about word: MASK

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. (more info) máscara, It. maschera; all fr. Ar. maskharat buffoon, fool, pleasantry, anything ridiculous or mirthful, fr. sakhira to ridicule, 1. 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. 2. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. 3. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show. Bacon. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Milton. 4. A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MASK)

• Cloak
• Conceal
• disguise
• mask
• veil
• hide
• cover
• palliate
• screen
• mitigate
• extenuate
• Hide
• secrete
• dissemble
• store
• protect
• ensconce
• burrow
• Pretence
• Excuse
• pretext
• fabrication
• simulation
• cloak
• color
• show
• garb
• plea
• assumption
• make believe
• outside show
• pretension
• Veil
• Intercept
• conceal

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MASK)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute

Related words: (words related to MASK)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• INTERCEPT
  To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• INTERCEPTIVE
  Intercepting or tending to intercept.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from