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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

M`ASKED, pp. Having the face covered; concealed; disguised.
1. a. In botany, personate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading; "hidden agenda"; "masked threat" [syn: cloaked, disguised, masked]
2: having markings suggestive of a mask; "the masked face of a raccoon"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1599 1. marked by the use of masks <a masked ball> 2. failing to present or produce the usual symptoms ; latent <a masked infection> <a masked virus>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. wearing or disguised with a mask. Phrases and idioms: masked ball a ball at which masks are worn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Masked Masked, a. 1. Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; cincealed; hidden. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If someone is masked, they are wearing a mask. Masked youths threw stones and fire-bombs. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

armored, camouflaged, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, disguised, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed, in disguise, incog, incognito, loricate, loricated, mantled, masquerading, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped