masking (masking)

[Verbal n. of mask3, v.] The act or diversion of covering the face with a mask, or of wearing a masquerade dre ; masquerading. The carnival of Venice is everywhere talked of. The great diversion of the place at that time, as well as on all other high occasions, is masking . Add is on , Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 392, 3. In zool.: ( a ) Larvate or larval: thus, a caterpillar is the masked state of a butterfly. (b) In entom., applied to pupæ which have the wings, masking-piece (másʻking-pēs), n. In the the legs, etc., of the future imago indicated by lines on the surface, as in Lepidoptera. (c) or steps on the stage. ater, a piece of scenery used to hide a platform Marked on the head or face as if literally wear maskinonge, maskinongy (mas'ki-nonj, -noning a mask; cap ist rate; personate.-4. In bot., ji), n. Same as maskalonge. same as personate. - Masked ball, a ball at which mask in'-pot (mas'kin-pot), n. A pot for mask the participants appear in masks, which are usually laid ing or infusing tea. Also mask in ' - pat. [Scotch.] aside before its conclusion. - Masked battery. See bat tery. Masked crab, a mask-crab.- Masked diver, the common puffin, Fratercula arctic a, the bright red, blue, Then up they gat the mask in '-pat, And in the sea did jaw, man. and yellow horny covering of whose beak comes off period. masklet, n. See mascle2. ically, and thus literally a mask which is removed. Burns , The American War. - Masked glutton. See glutton. - Masked gull, the masklele t, a. See mascle le . European brown-headed gull, Chroïcocephalus rid i bundus, which in summer has the head enveloped in a dark brown hood. Many other gulls are similarly masked, as all those of the genus Chroïcocephalus. See cut under Chroïcocephalus. - Masked monkey, or masked saguin, Callithrix person at us, a Brazilian species with a black head. See cut under saguin. - Masked pig, a kind of pig domesticated in Japan, with large pendulous ears and heavily furrowed face, by some ne called Sus plici ceps and regarded as a genuine species, to which the generic name Centuriosus (as C. pliciceps ) has also been given. maskeer, Upper Ojibway masked, a swamp.] A bog. Great Lakes Canada.]