Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who wears a mask, especially a participant in a masquerade or masque.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To mask, conceal, or disguise.
  • noun A mask.
  • noun A person in masquerade; one who takes part in an entertainment where the guests are masked or disguised.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
  • transitive verb obsolete To confuse; to stupefy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
  • verb transitive To render giddy or senseless; confuse; bewilder; stupefy - Holland
  • verb intransitive To be bewildered.
  • verb transitive To choke; stifle.
  • verb transitive To decay; rust.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a participant in a masquerade

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From mask +‎ -er.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English *maskeren, malskren ("to bewilder"; compare Middle English bimalscren ("to bewitch")), from Old English *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung ("enchantment, charm")), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch ("headstrong, zealous"), Gothic  (malsks, "foolish"). More at mask.

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Examples

  • Simultaneous masking occurs when a set of sounds are made inaudible by another "masker" set of sounds for the same duration as the original sound.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009

  • 'masker' being used sometimes of the players, and sometimes of their disguises.

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • And that's how you use your instrument - as a complement instead of a masker.

    YesButNoButYes: Haterade's Idol Anal-ysis (Round of 20 Men) - 2/26/08 2008

  • In all haste the masker crept out of his disguise, unwilling to abide a third buffet from the lance of the enraged Knight.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Yang ini keren, harusnya pake masker tapi lagi buat mainan anak kecil, ga taw anaknya pa adeknya pa anaknya tetangganya ato adeknya tetangganya ato ponakannya ato sapanya ga taw ..

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  • I was a rider, a masker on one of the Bacchus floats.

    CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006 2006

  • Mardi Gras beads, but only the ones you catch, thrown by an actual masker on a float.

    My New Orleans Rosemary James 2006

  • Mardi Gras beads, but only the ones you catch, thrown by an actual masker on a float.

    My New Orleans Rosemary James 2006

  • “It is even as the juvenal hath said,” added the masker who spoke first; “Our major devil — for this is but our minor one — is even now at Lucina, fer opem, within that very Tugurium.”

    Kenilworth 2004

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