premise: a rough, dead, or glossy <mask> given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.
hypothesis: the best context for <mask> here is The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; but not A kind of tall chest of drawers, with drawers up to near or above eye level and fouyr legs at the base; it is often divided into lower and upper sections, with the lower section somewhat wider than the upper; also called a tallboy.  Compare lowboy..