English Dictionary: masquerading | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for masquerading | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Masquerade \Mas`quer*ade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Masqueraded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Masquerading}.] 1. To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade. 2. To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not. A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. --L'Estrange. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
masquerading 1. 2. and {gateway} machines from the outside world by rewriting the "From" address and other {headers} as the message leaves the organisation. This is good practise because external users do not need to know about internal changes in message routing. The external mail gateway needs to know how to route incoming replies back to the original sender. (1998-03-03) |