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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disguise \Dis*guise"\, noun
1. A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.
There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. --Addison.
2. Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
That eye which glances through all disguises. --D. Webster.
3. Change of manner by drink; intoxication. --Shak.
4. A masque or masquerade. [Obs.]
Disguise was the old English word for a masque. --B. Jonson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disguise \Dis*guise"\ (?; 232), verb (used with an object) [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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disguise
noun
1: an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories" [syn: {camouflage}]
2: any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity
3: the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance; "he is a master of disguise" [syn: {camouflage}]
verb: make unrecognizable; "The herb disguises the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
190 Moby Thesaurus words for "disguise": accouter, acting, affect, affectation, appearance, assume, attitudinizing, bad copy, bad likeness, ballet skirt, becloud, befog, belie, blanket, blind, bluff, bluffing, burlesque, buskin, camouflage, cap and bells, caparison, caricature, charade, cheating, cloak, cloud, color, coloring, conceal, contrast, costume, counterfeit, cover, cover up, cover-up, curtain, deceive, deception, delusion, difference, disparity, dissemblance, dissemble, dissembling, dissimilarity, dissimilate, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissimulate, dissimulation, distort, distract attention from, divergence, diversity, domino, dress up, eclipse, embellish, embroider, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, equip, exaggerate, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, false air, false colors, false face, false front, false show, falsify, falsity, feign, feigning, feint, fit, fit out, form, four-flushing, fraud, front, fudge, garble, getup, gild, gilt, gloss, gloss over, guise, habit, hide, humbug, humbuggery, identity, imposture, incognito, incommensurability, incomparability, keep under cover, make-believe, makeup, mask, masque, masquerade, mere caricature, meretriciousness, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, motley, mummery, nonuniformity, obfuscate, obscure, occult, ostentation, outfit, outward show, overdraw, overstate, pageant, parody, pervert, playacting, poor imitation, pose, posing, posture, pretend, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pretext, protective coloration, put-on, representation, rig, rig out, rig up, screen, seeming, semblance, shade, sham, show, shroud, simulacrum, simulate, simulation, slant, slur over, smoke screen, sock, speciousness, strain, suit, tights, titivate, travesty, trick out, turn out, tutu, twist, understate, uniform, unlikeness, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, varnish, vary, veil, veneer, visor, vizard, vizard mask, warp, whitewash, window dressing, wraps, wrench
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