These are the meanings of the letters AMSK when you unscramble them.
- Mask (n.)
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.
- Mask (n.)
A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
- Mask (n.)
A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
- Mask (n.)
A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
- Mask (n.)
A screen for a battery.
- Mask (n.)
In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- Mask (n.)
That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- Mask (n.)
The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
- Mask (v. i.)
To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
- Mask (v. i.)
To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
- Mask (v. t.)
To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
- Mask (v. t.)
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.
- Mask (v. t.)
To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
- Mask (v. t.)
To disguise; to cover; to hide.