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Disguising

Disguising \Dis*guis"ing\, n. A masque or masquerade. [Obs.]

Disguising

Disguise \Dis*guise"\ (?; 232), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disguised; p. pr. & vb. n. Disguising.] [OE. desguisen, disgisen, degisen, OF. desguisier, F. d['e]guiser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + guise. See Guise.]

  1. To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

    Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.

    All God's angels come to us disguised.
    --Lowell.

  3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

    I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.
    --Spectator.

    Syn: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See Conceal.

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disguising

n. A masque or masquerade. vb. (present participle of disguise English)

Usage examples of "disguising".

For his sake, and taking pity on his grief and my love, I conceived the plan of accompanying him as his servant, or rather to avoid disguising my sex, as his wife.

Indeed other sovereigns seem to vie with him by taking his name and even by disguising it.

Anxious to explore, with his own eyes, the state of the Vandals, he ventured, after disguising the color of his hair, to visit Carthage, in the character of his own ambassador: and Genseric was afterwards mortified by the discovery, that he had entertained and dismissed the emperor of the Romans.

The embassy staffers shouted back and forth in angry tones, disguising both relief at leaving Lalonde and disgust at the flying vomit.

Each laboratory was examined in turn, using electronic warfare blocks and infrared (in case Couteur was disguising herself as a piece of equipment).

Anxious to explore, with his own eyes, the state of the Vandals, he ventured, after disguising the color of his hair, to visit Carthage, in the character of his own ambassador: and Genseric was afterwards mortified by the discovery, that he had entertained and dismissed the emperor of the Romans.

His expression was usually bland, disguising the shrewdness that lurked in his eyes.

They looked like ores, with coarse, tangled manes and lupine ears, but Pharaun's silver ring revealed that the appearance was an illusion, disguising dark elf males.

Special Agent Raman promised, helping Ryan into it, and disguising him as one of the several hundred firefighters roaming around.

With the sun up, there would be no disguising what C OMEDY was and where they were going, he thought.

Rather than disguising her diminutive size, as she probably intended, the getup emphasized her fragility.

He couldn't tell whether her carefully neutral tone was disguising anger or amusement.

Gabriel said, with facetious humour disguising the tingle of nerves Greg knew would be there.

Such things, maskings, and disguisings, and dressing up, sometimes in incredible and wild fashions, are all part of the fun of carnival.

Loo-Macklin had discovered his return to the UTW, penetrated his carefully concocted disguisings, and tracked him down.