mash 
mash'-'t, n. An obsolete form of mi-slti. 
mash 11 , n. A dialectal form of marsh. [U. S.] 
mash 4 (mash), . [Hind, mash, < Skt. mdslia, 
a bean, pulse.] In India, a kind of bean, Plia- 
m-olitx ratliiiliix. 
The principal crop of this country [Assam] consists of 
rice and mash. Encyc. Brit., II. 719. 
masha (mash'a), . [Hind. masltd, < Skt. mdslia, 
a bean: MemoM*.] An Indian unit of weight 
for gold, the weight of the bean of Pnaseolus 
vulgaris, equal to 8f grains troy, or 5 vatis. 
mashallah (mash-al'a), interj. [Ar. md-shd 'lldli, 
< slid, will (masMa, a thing willed), + Allah. 
God: see Allah.'] As God wills: an exclama- 
tion used by Persians, Turks, and Arabs to ex- 
press wonder or admiration. 
mash-COOler (mash'kS'ler), . A trough in 
which mash or wort is stirred to hasten the 
cooling. 
masher (mash'er), . 1. An apparatus for pre- 
paring the mash for the distillation of potato 
spirits. Ure, Diet. 2. One who or that which 
mashes or crushes ; a crusher. 3. One whose 
dress or manners are such as to impress strong- 
ly the fancy or elicit the admiration of suscep- 
tible young women; a fop; a "dude"; a "lady- 
killer." [Recent slang.] 
Of late years Mr. Du Maurier has perhaps been a little 
too docile to the muse of elegance ; the idiosyncrasies of 
the masher and the high girl with elbows have beguiled 
him into occasional inattention to the doings of the short 
and shabby. U . James, Jr., in Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 63. 
mash-fat (mash'fat), n. [< ME. maskefatte, 
masfat; < mash 1 + fat'*, vat.] A mash-vat or 
mash-tub. 
mashing (mash'ing), n. [Verbal n. of mash 1 , .] 
1. A beating or pounding into a mass ; a crush- 
ing. 2. In brewing, the process of infusing the 
crushed malt in warm water, to extract the sac- 
charine matter from it and convert the starch 
into dextrine and sugar. 3. The quantity of 
malt and warm water so mixed. 
mashing-fatt, Same as mash-tub. 
He maye happe, ere aught long, to fall into the meshing- 
fettt. Sir T. Hare, Works, p. 679. 
mashing-tub (mash'ing-tub), n. Same as mash- 
tub. 
mashipt, n. An obsolete contracted form of 
mastership. 
I may personally perfourme your request, and bestowe 
the sweetest farewell on your sweet-mouthed maship. 
G. Harvey, to Ed. Spenser, Oct. 28, 1579. 
mashlin, mashlim, mashlum (mash'lin, -lim, 
-lum), H. and a. Dialectal (Scotch) forms of 
maslin 2 . 
I'll be his debt twa mashlum bannocks, 
And drink his health in auld Nanse Tinnock's 
Nine times a-week. 
Burns, Prayer to the Scotch Representatives. 
mash-machine (mash'ma-shen"), . In brew- 
ing, a machine for pulping mash before dis- 
charging it into the mash-tub to be steeped. 
E. H. Knight. 
mash-pulper (mash ' pul " per), n. Same as 
matHi*maoktne. 
mash-tub (mash 'tub), H. In brewing, a vat for 
steeping the ground malt to make wort. Such 
tubs or vats are often of great size, and are provided with 
stirring-machinery for keeping the mash in motion during 
the process. Also called mashing-tub, mash-tun, mash- 
oat. 
mash-vat (mash' vat), n. Same as mask-fat. 
mash-wort (mash'wert), n. In brewing, wort 
that is not separated from the grains. 
mashy (mash'i), . [< mash 1 + -y 1 .] Produced 
by crushing or bruising; of the nature of a 
mash: as, the mashy juice of apples or grapes. 
[Rare.] 
Then comes the crushing swain ; the country floats, 
And foams unbounded with the mashy flood. 
Thomson, Autumn, 1. 699. 
masjid (inas'jid), n. [Alsomci!Jid,iu8Jid; <Ar. 
masjid, masjad, mesjad, a place of worship, a 
mosque: see mosque.] A Mohammedan place 
of worship ; a mosque. 
The mosque of Kubafrom that day took a fresh title 
Masjid el Takwa, or the " Mosque of Piety." 
R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 253. 
mask 1 (mask), v. [A dial, and more orig. 
form of mash 1 , v."] I. trans. To steep; infuse. 
[North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
I hope your honours will tak tea before ye gang to the 
palace, and I maun gang and mask it for you. 
Scott, Waverley, xlii. 
II. intrans. To be infused; yield to the pro- 
cess of infusion: as, the tea is masking. 
[Scotch.] 
t! . and r. An obsolete form of mesh 1 . 
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Mask. 
From cast of statue of Thalia 
in the Vatican Museum. 
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mask :1 (mask), it. [Formerly also Hiasqiir (which 
is still used archaically in senses 2 and 3),maske; 
= D. G. Dan. maske = Sw. mask, < F. masque, 
a mask, vizor, masker, entertainment, etc., < 
Sp. mascara = Pg. mascara = It. masehcra, a 
masker, masquerader, a mask, < Ar. maskharat, 
a jester, buffoon, masker, < sakhara, ridicule.] 
1. A cover for the face with apertures for see- 
ing and breathing; especially, such a cover, 
usually of silk or velvet, as worn at masque- 
rades ; a false face ; a vizor. Ancient Greek and 
Roman actors wore masks 
covering the head as well as 
the face, made to simulate 
the characters represented, 
with hair and beard when 
required, and with mouth- 
pieces so formed as to swell 
the volume of the voice ; and 
masks of various forms have 
continued to be used in mum- 
meries and pantomimes : for 
the latter (as also at masked 
balls), commonly covering 
only the upper part of the 
face to the tip of the nose 
or the upper lip. Masks are 
often used for disguise, as 
during the commission of ne- 
farious acts, and, under the 
name of false faces, usually 
grotesque or hideous, as toys 
for children ; also sometimes by women to preserve the 
complexion, or as vehicles for the application of cosmet- 
ics. Masks of wire, gauze, etc., are used to afford pro- 
tection to the face, as from splinters, dust, or smoke in 
glass-works, grinding-mills, and other factories, and also 
by fencers, firemen, and base-ball catchers. 
Now Love pulled off his mask and shewed his face unto 
her. Sir P. Sidney. 
But since she did neglect her looking-glass, 
And threw her sun-expelling mask away. 
Shak.,T. G. of V., iv. 4. 158. 
Off with thy mask, sweet sinner of the north ; these 
masks are foils to good faces, and to bad ones they are like 
new satin outsides to lousy linings. 
Vekker and Webster, Northward Ho, v. 1. 
2. A festive entertainment or performance in 
which the participants are masked or wear a 
disguising costume ; a body of maskers ; a mas- 
querade ; a revel. 
Pan. A masque! what's that? 
Scri. A mumming or a shew, 
With vizards and fine clothes. 
Clench. A disguise, neighbour, 
Is the true word. 
B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, v. 2. 
This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask 
Content, though blind. Milton, Sonnets, xvii. 
"1'would make a very pretty dancing Suit in a Mask. 
SUele, Tender Husband, iii. 1. 
3. A form of histrionic spectacle, much in 
vogue during the sixteenth and seventeenth 
centuries. It probably originated in the practice of in- 
troducing on solemn or festive occasions men wearing 
masks to represent mythical or allegorical characters. 
From a mere acted pageant, it gradually developed into a 
complete dramatic entertainment, in which the scenes 
were accompanied and embellished by music, and, in the 
hands of writers like Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, 
and Milton, reached a high degree of literary excellence. 
The king is gone this day for Royston, and hath left with 
the queen a commandment to meditate upon a mask for 
Christmas, so that they grow serious about that already. 
Donne, Letters, xxxvi. 
I, who till now Spectator was, must in 
The glorious Masque an Actor be. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 110. 
The musical dramas known under the name of masques, 
which were so popular from the time of Ben Jonson to the 
time of the Rebellion, kept up a general taste for the art. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iv. 
4. Anything used or practised for disguise or 
concealment; anything interposed as a safe- 
guard against observation, discovery, or disclo- 
sure ; a screen or disguise : a subterfuge, pre- 
text, or shift : as, a mask of brush in front of a 
battery; suffering under a mask of gaiety. 
The Phylosophers of Greece durst not a long time ap- 
peare to the worlde but vnder the masks of Poets. 
Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 
Meanwhile the face 
Conceals the mood lethargic with a mask 
Of deep deliberation. Couyer, Task, iv. 299. 
5. A person wearing a mask. 
A Mask, who came behind him [Sir Roger], gave him a 
gentle tap upon the shoulder, and asked him if he would 
drink a bottle of mead with her. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 883. 
The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, 
And not a mask went unimproved away. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 541. 
6. In sculp.: (a) A representation in any mate- 
rial, as marble,metal. terra-cotta, or wax, of the 
face only of a figure, or of the face with the 
front of the neck and upper part of the chest : 
as, a m iixk of Jupiter; comic and tragic mask*. 
maskalonge 
(b) An impression or cast of the face of a per- 
son, living or dead, made by covering the face 
with some plastic or semi-fluid substance, as 
plaster of Paris, which is removed when it has 
become sufficiently set. 7. In arch., a repre- 
sentation of a face, generally grotesque, em- 
ployed to fill and adorn vacant places, as in 
corbels, friezes, panels of doors, keys of arch- 
es, etc. 8. In xuri/., a linen bandage with ap- 
ertures for the eyes, nose, and mouth, applied 
over the face in cases of burns, scalds, erysip- 
elas, etc. 9. In zool. : (a) A formation or 
coloration of the head like a mask ; a hood or 
capistrum. See masked, (b) Specifically, in 
entom., the greatly enlarged labium or lower 
lip of the larval and pupal dragon-fly. It is elon- 
gate, spatulate, and armed at the end with two hooks 
adapted for seizing prey ; but in repose the whole organ 
is folded up over the lower part of the face, concealing the 
jaws and other mouth-organs beneath. Hence, though 
these larvse are exceedingly voracious, they appear at first 
sight quite harm- 
less. Also called 
forcipate lalrium. 
Iron mask. See 
the man in the 
iron mask, below. 
-Mask of steel, 
a name given to an 
unusual piece ' of 
armor of the thir- 
teenth century, 
consisting of a 
shaped and pierced 
plate of steel ap- 
plied to the camail 
or coif of mail in 
such a way as to 
protect the face, 
which the camail 
leaves exposed. 
Mask-wall, in 
fort., the scarp- 
wall of a case- 
mate. The man 
In the Iron mask, a prisoner of state in Franco, masked 
in a vizor of black velvet, who was confined and guarded 
Mask of Steel, I3th century. 
. 
been a prince of the house of Bourbon. 
mask 3 (mask ) , r. [Formerly also masque, maske; 
< F. masquer, mask ; from the noun.] I. trans. 
1. To cover the face of, wholly or in part, for 
concealment, disguise, or defense; conceal with 
a mask or vizor. 
They must all be mask'd and vizarded. 
Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 6. 40. 
2. To cover with a disguising costume of any 
kind, as in a masquerade. 
They are not presented as themselves, 
But masqued like others. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
3. To disguise; conceal; screen from view by 
something interposed. 
Masking the business from the common eye. 
Shak., Macbeth, iii. 1. 125. 
Now a poore man has not vizard enough to maske his 
vices, nor ornament enough to set forth his vertues. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Poore Man. 
Who [men] never shew their Passions more violently 
and unreasonably than when they are mask'd under a Pre- 
tence of Zeal against Heresie and Innovation. 
StaiiiKjjUet, Sermons, III. iii. 
On a line with the house is a garden masked from view 
by a high, close board fence. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 3. 
= Syn. 3. To cloak, veil, screen, shroud. 
II. intrans. 1. To play a part in a masque- 
rade ; go about in masquerade. 
These ladies maskers toke each of them one of the 
Frenchmen to daunce and to maske. Cavendish, Wolsey. 
Is this a shape for reputation 
And modesty to masque in 1 
Middleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, i. 2. 
2. To put on a mask ; disguise one's self in any 
way. 
And then we mask'd. Shak., R. and J., i. 5. 39. 
maskalonge (mas'ka-lonj), . [Also written 
mascaloitge, masJcalunge, muscalonge, niitska- 
longe, muskalinge, moskalonge, etc., also mas- 
f(uallonge, maskallonge, muskelltinge, nuinktil- 
lunge, etc., the spelling masquattonge simulat- 
ing F. masque allonge, defined as 'long face,' 
lit. ' lengthened mask,' or F. masque Ifinguc (nlso 
given as the name of the fish), 'long face,' lit. 
'long mask,' the name of the fish being also writ- 
ten, to emphasize this etym., (/' allonge, HIX- 
cnhmge, etc., also noscononye, etc.; but also, 
and according to the Ind. origin properly, writ- 
ten niaxl.'iitoiif/c (so in the laws of Canada), mus- 
knnnnge, maskcnonge, < Algonkin maskinottge, 
in Chippeway dial, maxkenoslia, maskinoje, lit. 
'great pickerel,' < max, great, + kiiimige, ke- 
nozlia, kiiiiijr. etc., a pickerel or pike, lit. 'long- 
