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.
2. (Bot.) Same as {Personate}.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Having the anterior part of the head differing
decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said
of birds.
{Masked ball}, a ball in which the dancers wear masks.
{Masked battery} (Mil.), a battery so placed as not to be
seen by an enemy until it opens fire. --H. L. Scott.
{Masked crab} (Zo["o]l.), a European crab ({Corystes
cassivelaunus}) with markings on the carapace somewhat
resembling a human face.
{Masked pig} (Zo["o]l.), a Japanese domestic hog ({Sus
pliciceps}). Its face is deeply furrowed.