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Poem by William Cowper
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books is a poem in blank verse by William Cowper published in 1785, usually seen as his supreme achievement. Its six books are
The_Task_(poem)
Topics referred to by the same term
The Task may refer to: The Task (poem), a 1785 poem by William Cowper The Task (film), a 2011 horror film directed by Alex Orwell The Mission (play),
The_Task
2011 poem by Julian Gough
End Poem (full text) The end credits of the video game Minecraft include a written work by the Irish writer Julian Gough, conventionally called the End
End_Poem
Chatbot developed by Microsoft
conversational interface style resembles that of ChatGPT. The chatbot is able to cite sources, create poems, generate songs, and use numerous languages and dialects
Microsoft_Copilot
1982 undeclared Argentina–United Kingdom war
occupied the Falkland Islands, followed by the invasion of South Georgia the next day. On 5 April the British government dispatched a naval task force to
Falklands_War
Comedian and actor
champions Aussies' right to watch the World Cup at work in new campaign fronted by Nick Mohammed via Droga5, Poem + Hearts & Science". Campaign Brief
Nick_Mohammed
Roman emperor from 117 to 138
Hadrian and Antinous held a lion hunt in the Libyan desert; a poem on the subject by the Greek Pankrates is the earliest evidence that they travelled together
Hadrian
1793 poem by Charlotte Smith
made so fair!" Smith linked the poem to William Cowper's blank verse poem The Task (1785), both in the preface to the work and in her correspondence with
The_Emigrants_(poem)
1955 poem by Allen Ginsberg, part of the Beat Generation movement
Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection, Howl and Other Poems. The poem is dedicated to Carl
Howl_(poem)
on ABC in the United States and ended on June 10, 1991. ABC canceled the original run due to declining ratings in the second season. The show's third
List_of_Twin_Peaks_episodes
from The Transformers television series that aired during the debut of the American and Japanese Transformers media franchise from 1984 to 1991. The Autobots
List of The Transformers characters
List_of_The_Transformers_characters
European history from the 5th to 15th centuries
a process known as the Macedonian Renaissance. Writers such as John Geometres (fl. early 10th century) composed new hymns, poems, and other works. Missionary
Middle_Ages
2001 film by Pete Docter
the film's release, Pixar was sued by children's songwriter Lori Madrid of Wyoming, claiming that the company had stolen her ideas from her 1997 poem
Monsters,_Inc.
Genre of poetry
The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of the Sinosphere—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of
Death_poem
Island country in Southeast Asia
2009, the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has deployed ships to the Gulf of Aden to aid in countering piracy efforts as part of Task Force 151. The SAF
Singapore
Social-cultural system
Barton, Carlin; Boyarin, Daniel (2016). "8. Imagine No 'Threskeia': The Task of the Untranslator". Imagine No Religion : How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient
Religion
Series by Stephen King
into play as the series progresses. The series was chiefly inspired by the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, the full text
The_Dark_Tower_(series)
Video game franchise
Enix. Young Xehanort: I am Xehanort from the most distant past. My future self gave me a task—to visit the splintered versions of myself in many worlds
Kingdom_Hearts
Country in Eastern Europe
with the invention of the printing press. The Cossacks established an independent society and popularised a new kind of epic poem, which marked a high
Ukraine
on the Prairie is an American Western historical drama about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota from the 1870s to the 1890s. The show
List of Little House on the Prairie episodes
List_of_Little_House_on_the_Prairie_episodes
German philosopher and socialist (1818–1883)
love poems dedicated to his wife. None of this early work was published during his lifetime. The love poems were published posthumously in the Collected
Karl_Marx
Landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision
the schools requesting relief concerning the task of desegregation. In their decision, which became known as Brown II, the court delegated the task of
Brown_v._Board_of_Education
Sundanese legend
Dayang Sumbi). Three Old Sundanese Poems. KITLV Press. 2007. Koesoemadinata, R. The Origin and Pre-history of the Sundanese. Institute of Technology Bandung
Sangkuriang
Sexually transmitted infection
as the title of his Latin poem in dactylic hexameter, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (Syphilis or The French Disease), describing the ravages of the disease
Syphilis
Fatal crowd crush during 1989 FA Cup semi-final
Hooligans: Knowing the Score. Berg Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85973-957-0. Bartram, Mike (2009). Justice Call: My Hillsborough Poems. Countyvise Ltd.
Hillsborough_disaster
American actress and filmmaker (born 1984)
follows the team tasked with collecting the dead at the height of the Ebola outbreak. The film went on to win Best Documentary Short at the 2015 Tribeca
Olivia_Wilde
Turkish Empire (c. 1299–1922)
texts, verses from poems or proverbs, and purely decorative drawings. The art of carpet weaving was particularly significant in the Ottoman Empire, carpets
Ottoman_Empire
2011 novel by Madeline Miller
awesome task to undertake. That she did it with such grace, style and suspense is astonishing." In 2012, The Song of Achilles was awarded the 17th annual
The_Song_of_Achilles
1826 poem by Felicia Hemans
poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in The Monthly Magazine, Vol 2, August 1826. The poem starts: The boy stood on the burning
Casabianca_(poem)
Mystic practices in Islam
commonly referred to as Qaṣīdat Al-Burda (Poem of the Mantle), in which he extensively praised Muhammad. This poem is still widely recited and sung amongst
Sufism
1921 mass violence in Oklahoma, US
of the massacre by Tim Madigan. If We Must Die (2002; TCU Press: ISBN 978-0875652627), a novel about Tulsa's 1921 Greenwood Riot by Pat Carr. A poem with
Tulsa_race_massacre
Country in Southeast Europe
with the strategic task of blocking the German forces withdrawing from Greece. The Bulgarian army would reach the Alps in Austria, participating in the expulsion
North_Macedonia
Legendary Greek king of Ithaca
hero of Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle. As the son of Laërtes and
Odysseus
Internationally accepted civil calendar
Portuguese, and belongs to a broad oral tradition but the earliest currently attested form of the poem is the English marginalia inserted into a calendar of
Gregorian_calendar
Emperor of China (1908–1912) and of Manchukuo (1934–1945)
wrote several poems that were published anonymously in "New China" publications. In 1922, Johnston had his friend, the writer Hu Shih, visit the Forbidden
Puyi
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – 212 BC)
attributed to the grammarian Priscian. In this poem, the lumps of gold and silver were placed on the scales of a balance, and then the entire apparatus
Archimedes
Holiest city in Islam and capital of Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia
Mecca until 1813, destroying some of the historic tombs and domes in and around the city. The Ottomans assigned the task of bringing Mecca back under Ottoman
Mecca
Borough and county in New York, US
grew up at St. Marks Place above the ferry stop on Staten Island in the last decade of the 19th century. His poem "The Old Lowe House" described property
Staten_Island
Poem by Robert Blair
"The Grave" is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter
The_Grave_(poem)
Major deity in Indian religions symbolizing power, time, and death
Devotional songs and poems that extol the motherly nature of Kali are popular in Bengal, where she is most widely worshipped as the Divine Mother. Shakta
Kali
American action drama film
adapted the novel for the screen. He felt it was a rare book to receive from a studio because it was short, gloomy, and like a poem. Since the novel does
Drive_(2011_film)
Country in Southern Africa
Good Hope, as it led to the riches of the East Indies. Dias' feat of navigation was immortalised in Luís de Camões' 1572 epic poem, Os Lusíadas. In 1497
South_Africa
Terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia
anthology of essays, poems and firsthand reflections from around the world. The anthology includes a foreword by a survivor of the attack, Creditor's brother-in-law
2025_Bondi_Beach_shooting
1885 poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Lamplighter (Stevenson) The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885
The_Lamplighter_(poem)
9th century Irish poem
"Pangur Bán" is an Old Irish poem written in about the 9th century at or near Reichenau Abbey, in what is now Germany, by an Irish monk about his cat
Pangur_Bán
American cable television news channel
of the U.S. Constitution by Rachel Maddow, and Maya Angelou's 1996 reading of her poem "The Human Family" to the United Nations, respectively. The "We
MS_NOW
Roman emperor from 27 BC to AD 14
which mentions the Res Gestae surviving, the lost autobiography, and the poems "Sicilia" and "Ajax", but not the poem "Epiphanus", the philosophical treatise
Augustus
Roman politician and general (83–30 BC)
fourteenth-century poem The Legend of Good Women. Lytle, William Haines (1826–1863), Antony and Cleopatra. Constantine P. Cavafy's poem The God Abandons Antony
Mark_Antony
Woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities
erotic humiliation is used, such as verbal humiliation or the assignment of humiliating tasks. Dominatrices also make use of other forms of servitude.
Dominatrix
1936–1938 campaign in the Soviet Union
German spy. Poet Osip Mandelstam was arrested for reciting his anti-Stalin poem, the "Stalin Epigram" to his circle of friends in 1934. After intervention
Great_Purge
1954–1955 fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
task upon himself. Elrond chooses companions for him: Sam, Merry, and Pippin; Gandalf; the Men Aragorn and Boromir, son of the Steward of Gondor; the
The_Lord_of_the_Rings
Country in northern Europe
been the case. The epic poem Beowulf describes semi-legendary Swedish-Geatish wars in the sixth century. However, historians typically start the line
Sweden
American alternative rock band
poem A Superscription. Love had had a minor background in literature, having briefly studied English literature in her early twenties. Throughout the
Hole_(band)
Tower in Paris, France
Guillaume Apollinaire wrote a nationalist poem in the shape of the tower (a calligram) to express his feelings about the war against Germany. Today, it is widely
Eiffel_Tower
1904–1905 conflict in East Asia
soared through the raucous air Much later, the Scottish poet Douglas Dunn devoted an epistolary poem in verse to the naval war in The Donkey's Ears: Politovsky's
Russo-Japanese_War
American science fiction media franchise
ingest melange to be able to perform the computations needed for space travel and other advanced tasks. Due to the similarities between some of Herbert's
Dune_(franchise)
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a
Sylvia_Plath
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
Erdogan poem". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2017. "Boris Johnson: UK will help Turkey join the EU". Politico
Boris_Johnson
English actor (born 1976)
King Richard III, whom he portrayed in The Hollow Crown. He attended Richard III's 2015 reburial and read a poem. Since 2001, Cumberbatch has had major
Benedict_Cumberbatch
American actor (1959–2025)
entitled My Edens After Burns, that included poems inspired by his time with Pfeiffer. This book of poems is difficult to obtain and expensive; known second-hand
Val_Kilmer
Hindu god of victory and war
meditation, and hardly noticed the courtship of Parvati, the daughter of Himavan who sought him as her consort. Indra tasked god of love Kamadeva and his
Kartikeya
Personification of the Earth in Greek mythology
In the poems of Hesiod, she is personified. Gaia has a significant role in the evolution of the world. She is the nurse of Zeus, and she has the epithet
Gaia
American civil rights activist (1927–1993)
would ban boycott campaigns in the state. Chavez tasked LeRoy Chatfield with running the campaign against it. At the ballot, Proposition 22 lost by 58
Cesar_Chavez
Second division of the Christian biblical canon
Peter, and a Poem by Ghazar.[citation needed] (Various sources[citation needed] also mention undefined Armenian canonical additions to the Gospels of Mark
New_Testament
Video game series
intermission, the second half of the concert was entirely dedicated to an expansive symphonic poem dedicated to the series. The 35-minute epic tells the story
The_Legend_of_Zelda
First crewed Moon landing (1969)
a poem called "Whitey on the Moon" (1970) expressing his view that the mission was emblematic of racial inequality in the United States. The poem starts
Apollo_11
Genus of insect
Doth the Little Busy Bee" (1715). Where Watts wrote "How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax!", Dickinson's poem, "The Bumble-Bee's
Bumblebee
Wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1762–1842)
game). Mozart also faced a very difficult task getting permission for the marriage from his father, Leopold. The marriage finally took place in an atmosphere
Constanze_Mozart
Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
on a spot overlooking the sea on land donated by British Acting Vice Consul Thomas Trood. Based on Stevenson's poem "Requiem", the following epitaph is
Robert_Louis_Stevenson
Heavenly beings who directly attend to God
Ezekiel, they transport Yahweh's throne. The cherub who appears in the "Song of David", a poem which occurs twice in the Hebrew Bible, in 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm
Cherub
1913–1927 novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust
de la Mare's poem "The Ghost"] or Albertine Gone), published in 1925, is the second and final volume in "le Roman d'Albertine" and the second volume
In_Search_of_Lost_Time
Roman statesman and lawyer (106–43 BC)
houses including the Domus Publica of Julius Caesar and the home of Cicero's mortal enemy Clodius. In Dante's 1320 poem the Divine Comedy, the author encounters
Cicero
Holy Roman Empress from 1114 to 1125; claimant to the English throne
decision to entitle his 1855 battle poem "Maud". Matilda's family tree: Maud is a vernacular form of Matilda derived from the Anglo-Norman Mehaut, and was used
Empress_Matilda
1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
26. It contained 600 items, including photographs, poems, and newspaper clippings relating to "The Little Prince." From 12 February – 14 March 2026, A2Z
The_Little_Prince
Film by Ridley Scott
named after John Milton's poem Paradise Lost, but Scott considered that this would convey too much information about the film. Fox CEO Thomas Rothman
Prometheus_(2012_film)
board. The reporter took it to the head of the NASA space task group, to which he agreed. In 1995, the flag was again taken to space to commemorate the 100th
Flag_of_the_United_States
King of demons from the Book of Tobit
the ruling intellect, whose task it is to reduce the physical passions to proper obedience, else the forces will capture the mind's seat and turn into an
Asmodeus
American rock band
During this tour, the band featured vocalist Axl Rose, Robin Finck, Ron Thal and Richard Fortus on guitars, Tommy Stinson on bass, Dizzy Reed and Chris
Guns_N'_Roses
Early Germanic people
Aurelius Victor: The Caesars, a history from Augustus to Constantius II Cassiodorus: A lost history of the Goths used by Jordanes Claudian: Poems Epitome de
Goths
English mathematician (1815–1852)
tribute to Lovelace in her 2025 collection of poems about women scientists, The Path of Most Resistance. In the 1997 film Conceiving Ada, a computer scientist
Ada_Lovelace
Life that does not originate on Earth
cosmic pluralism on the basis of the Qur'an. Chaucer's poem The House of Fame engaged in medieval thought experiments that postulated the plurality of worlds
Extraterrestrial_life
Palace and fortress complex in Granada, Spain
Along the rim of the fountain's basin is an inscribed poem composed by Ibn Zamrak. This praises the beauty of the fountain and the power of the lions
Alhambra
18th-century European adventurer and intellectual
Discounting the snippets of political intrigue, a few musical pieces, and one mystical poem, there are only two pieces of writing attributed to the Count:
Count_of_St._Germain
City in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
collections of modern poems and short stories and through emigration a large networkwas established. A second smaller group[who?] in the 1930s tried to create
Lviv
Period of Japanese history from 794 to 1185
no Teika. The famous Japanese poem known as the Iroha (いろは), of uncertain authorship, was also written during the Heian period. During the Heian period
Heian_period
Indigenous people of North America
established the language as one of the key trade languages of the Great Lakes and the northern Great Plains. The popularity of the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha
Ojibwe
Bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series
anthropomorphic moe style. Reimu Hakurei, the miko of the Hakurei Shrine and the main character of the series, is often tasked with resolving supernatural "incidents"
Touhou_Project
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
1946 black-and-white photograph of the couple in Cambridge University and incorporates in its background Tan's poem in memory of Kwa. A Couple was purchased
Lee_Kuan_Yew
1956 film by Cecil B. DeMille
completes a final task. Moses saves Joshua from death by killing Baka, telling Joshua that he, too, is Hebrew. The confession is witnessed by the Hebrew overseer
The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
The_Ten_Commandments_(1956_film)
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540–1596)
king asleep in mountain story motif. It inspired a poem by Henry Newbolt. Drake was a major focus in the video game series Uncharted, specifically its first
Francis_Drake
City in Saxony, Germany
of the city, Friedrich Schiller wrote his poem "Ode to Joy". A once common English spelling of the city's name was Leipsic, among many variants. The Latin
Leipzig
Phenomena related to electric charge
death at their gloves' end as they piece and repiece the living wires" in Rudyard Kipling's 1907 poem Sons of Martha. Electrically powered vehicles of every
Electricity
1919 massacre of Indian protesters
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan wrote a poem, "Jallianwalla Bagh Mein Basant", (Spring in the Jallianwalla Bagh) in memory of the slain in her anthology Bikhre
Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
Species of large cat
the classification recognised by the Cat Classification Task Force in 2017. The tiger shares the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar and snow
Tiger
Preserved remains or traces of organisms from a past geological age
urchin) were associated with the god Thor, not only being incorporated in thunderstones, representations of Thor's hammer and subsequent hammer-shaped
Fossil
American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)
23-minute title song which took up all of the B-side of the album. Half spoken word poem and half tape-recorded sounds, the song documented Baez's visit to Hanoi
Joan_Baez
1854 narrative poem by Coventry Patmore
The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Although largely ignored upon publication
The_Angel_in_the_House
Series of children's novels by C. S. Lewis
Tolkien's works, highlights the thematic similarities between Tolkien's poem Imram and Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The Chronicles of Narnia is
The_Chronicles_of_Narnia
1976 Israeli counter-terrorist operation
held, speeches were given, and a poem was recited. The flags of Uganda and Israel were flown side by side, symbolising the two countries' strong bilateral
Entebbe_raid
English writer and journalist (1812–1870)
in part Poe's 1845 poem "The Raven". Three ravens of the Tower of London have been named after Grip, the latest in 2012 to mark the bicentenary of Dickens's
Charles_Dickens
THE TASK-POEM
THE TASK-POEM
Female
German
Pet form of German Kätharina, KÄTHE means "pure."
Female
Vietnamese
Vietnamese name THU means "autumn."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, from the Middle English phrase at(te) asche ‘at (the) ash’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of bags and purses, from German Tasche ‘bag’, ‘purse’. Compare Taschner.
Boy/Male
English
From the enclosure.
Surname or Lastname
Swedish and Norwegian
Swedish and Norwegian : from ask ‘ash tree’, applied either as a habitational name from a place named with this word or as an ornamental name.English : habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire named Aske, from Old English as æsc ‘ash tree’, later replaced by the Old Norse cognate askr.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Middle English word tye, TYE means "pasture."
Female
Vietnamese
Vietnamese name THI means "poem."
Boy/Male
Norse
From the ash tree.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant of Tye.
Surname or Lastname
German and Dutch
German and Dutch : from a pet form of the personal name Thomas.English : unexplained.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Acme of mountain
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval vernacular short form of the personal name Pascal, Latin Paschalis (see Pascal).
Girl/Female
Greek American
Goddess; godly. Also as abbreviation of names like Althea and Dorothea. The mythological Thea was...
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Completing the Work; Finishing the Task
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name for someone from Thirsk in North Yorkshire, named from an unattested Old Scandinavian word, thresk ‘marsh’.
Girl/Female
Spanish
Task.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Son of Bharat (Brother of Lord Rama)
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun
Acme of Mountain
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Perfect in Any Task
Female
Chamoru
, bay, ocean, sea.
THE TASK-POEM
THE TASK-POEM
Boy/Male
French, German
Courageous; Prince of the People
Girl/Female
Arabic, Indian, Iranian, Muslim, Parsi
Snake Like; Snake; Major
Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Muslim
Messenger, Partner, Cloud
Girl/Female
Tamil
Protected by God
Surname or Lastname
English (frequent in eastern England)
English (frequent in eastern England) : ethnic name from Norman French aleman ‘German’ or alemayne ‘Germany’ (Late Latin Alemannus and Alemannia, from a Germanic tribal name that probably originally meant ‘all the men’). In some cases the surname may be from the region of Normandy known as Allemagne (south of Caen), probably named as a Germanic-speaking enclave in a Celtic area in Roman times. In North America, the form Allman has probably absorbed some cases of cognates from other languages, in particular Spanish Aleman and French Alleman.German (Allmann) : variant of Allemann (see Alleman) or in some cases probably an Americanized form of the same name.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Fair Haired
Boy/Male
Muslim
Filled with happiness
Girl/Female
Australian, German, Polish
Small; Humble; Little
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Conch Shell; Elephant
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n.
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.
n.
Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
v. t.
To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
v. t.
Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
v. t.
To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
v. t.
To put into a cask.
v. t.
To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
v. i.
To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.
v. t.
The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
n.
See 2d Tusk, n., 2.
n.
That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
v. t.
To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
n.
A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
v. i.
To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
v. t.
To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
n.
Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
n.
The quantity contained in a cask.
v. t.
The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
n.
A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
v. t.
To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.