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Malediction; curse; execration. [Poetic] God's malison on his head who this gainsays. Sir W. Scott.

A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. Mason bee (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of solitary bees of the genus Osmia. They construct curious nests of hardened mud and sand. -- Mason moth (Zoöl.), any moth whose larva constructs an earthen cocoon under the soil. -- Mason shell (Zoöl.), a marine…

Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.

The art or occupation of a mason.

and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson. B. G. Wilder.

Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.

Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects.

Having but one person, or form of existence.

Having many sounds, or sounding much.

Not sonant. -- n.

A simpleton; a fool. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A catering; a buying of provisions. [Obs.] Bailey.

See Orison. [Obs.] Shak.

er; a supplication. [Poetic] Chaucer. Shak. Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid. Milton.

Horizon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than. South.

To garrison to excess.

To season too highly.