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One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.

A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

cumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.

A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson.

instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond.

A conoisseur. Mason.

An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. [U. S.]

One skilled in counterpoint. L. Mason.

The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping. Gwill.

work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.

A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.

One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. [Scot.]

To produce a creaking sound with. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. Shak.

A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

arrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

e's country; to banish. [Obs.] A subject born in any state May, if he please, depatriate. Mason.