Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Masking"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mask \Mask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Masked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Masking}.]
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. To disguise; to cover; to hide.
Masking the business from the common eye. --Shak.
3. (Mil.)
(a) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
(b) 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
masking
adj : hiding from view; "speeding down the other lane beyond the
masking truck"- T.H.White"; "a masking piece is a flat
or curtain that hides part of the stage from the
audience"
n 1: the act of concealing the existence of something by
obstructing the view of it; "the cover concealed their
guns from enemy aircraft" [syn: {cover}, {covering}, {screening}]
2: the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of
another sensation; "he studied auditory masking by pure
tones"
3: scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the
stage that should not be seen [syn: {masking piece}]
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