Meaning of ముసుగు in English

A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.
That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
A screen for a battery.
The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
To disguise; to cover; to hide.
To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
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.
To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
of Mask
Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; cincealed; hidden.
Same as Personate.
Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
of Muss
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
To take shelter or harbor.
To lop. See Shrood.
Affording shelter.