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The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry.

Opposition to Freemasonry.

The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

One opposed to Freemasonry. -- An`ti*ma*son"ic, a.

Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

g an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M. Buchanan.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. Gwilt.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond (Masonry), herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built (Shipbuilding), built by forming the outer skin of two layers of planking, making angles of about 45º with the keel, in opposite directions. -- Diagonal cleavage.…