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▪ I. † masked, ppl. a.1
[f. mask v.2 + -ed1.]
Amazed, bewildered.
c1290[see mask v.2].
▪ II. masked, ppl. a.2|mɑːskt, -æ-|
Also 7–9 masqued.
[f. mask n.3 or v.4 + -ed.]
1. a. Having, wearing, or provided with a mask.
a1637B. Jonson Underwoods, Death Sir H. Morison 23 For, what is..masked man, if valu'd by his face, Above his fact? 1681Wyndham King's Concealm. 75 Thus entred these masqued Travellers, to enquire where they were. 1751H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 397 Where there are a few good pictures, and many masked statues. 1841Spalding Italy II. 371 These characters were represented by masked actors.
b. masked ball [F. bal masqué]: a ball at which those taking part wear masks; = masquerade 1.
1813Sk. Character (ed. 2) I. 201 She's going to give a masqued ball in February. 1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 250 At masqued routs. 1873Ouida Pascarel I. 151 It was the masked ball of the Carnival.
c. Used (often repr. L. larvatus, personatus) as the specific name of animals having some conformation or marking resembling a mask.
1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 130 The Masked Boar (Sus larvatus). 1859Wood Nat. Hist. I. 245 Paguma larvata,..Masked Glutton. 187.Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 343 The Japan, or Masked Pig (Sus pliciceps, Gray). Ibid. IV. 162 The Masked Finfoot (Podica personata). 1882Ibid. VI. 200 The Masked Crab [= mask-crab, mask n.3 5]. 1896H. O. Forbes Handbk. Primates I. 163 The Masked Titi. Callithrix personata.
d. Bot. Of a corolla: = personate.
1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Personata corolla, a personate or masked corolla. 1839Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) i. ii. 167 If the upper and lower sides of the orifice are pressed together, as in Antirrhinum, it [the corolla] is personate or masked, resembling the face of some grinning animal.
e. masked jug: see mask n.3
2. transf. and fig.
a. Having the real features or character concealed or disguised. Also occas. Concealed from view.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xviii. 105 The masked hypocrisie of this olde foxe. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1590) 223 b, [He] was not the sharpest pearcer into masked minds. c1600Shakes. Sonn. liv, When sommers breath their masked buds discloses. a1628F. Greville Poems, Of Humane Learn. lxxxi. 38 Nothing new But masked euill which still addeth terror. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 270 note, Others..pursue it.. with invidious sarcasms and masqued sneers. 1904Hewlett Queen's Quair i. viii. 113 None could under-read her masked words.
b. Nosology. Of diseases, esp. intermittent fevers: presenting anomalous symptoms; not recognizable by the usual criteria.
1833Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 234/1 (Fever). Masked intermittents. Ibid. 235/1 Masked ague. 1843–71Watson Lect. Princ. & Pract. Physic (ed. 5) I. 821 Sometimes the patient is said to have lurking gout or masked gout. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 317 Masked malarial fever. 1899Ibid. VIII. 558 The psoriasis may remain masked.
c. Of a sound or other stimulus (see mask v.4 2 h, masking vbl. n.2 2 b).
1924Physical Rev. XXIII. 270 The frequency of the masked tone is indicated on each curve. 1965T. S. Littler Physics Ear vii. 134 We usually determine the level at which a sound has to be maintained in order to be just audible in the presence of another. This is known as the masked threshold of the masked or maskee sound in the presence of the masking or masker sound.
d. Chem. Of a substance or molecular group: prevented from taking part in a certain reaction by being in a bound form, esp. as a result of another preliminary reaction.
1932Discovery Mar. 96/2 The first traces of the masked iron indicative of haemoglobin appear in the nuclei of certain cells. 1940R. E. Oesper tr. Feigl's Specific & Special Reactions for Qualitative Analysis iv. 49 This fact was used..to release the cationically masked sulfate groups in the green complex chronic sulfate solutions. 1974Angewandte Makromolekulare Chemie XXXIV. 111 Tertiary aliphatic amines containing masked methylol groups, e.g. methylolalkylether.., prove efficient catalysts in the production of polyurethane foams.
3. Mil. and Fortif. Chiefly in masked battery: see mask v.4 2 b. Also fig.
1759Dilworth Life Pope 52 Mr. Addison, to vent his spleen against Mr. Pope by the means of a masked battery. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man iv. (near end), You shall..burst out upon the miscreant like a masqued battery. 1783Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies V. 462 A masked battery, intended to cover the harbour and town of Paramabiro. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg. II. 145/2 The attempt which was made to annihilate an inquiry of such importance, by the masked battery of an amendment. |