Mason

·noun A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. ·see Freemason.

II. Mason ·noun One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.

III. Mason ·vt To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, ·etc.; to construct by masons;

— with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

Mason
An artificer in stone. The Tyrians seem to have been specially skilled in architecture (1 Kings 5:17...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Mason, William
(1724-1797) Poet, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Hull, and ed. at Camb. He took orders and rose to be...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
anti-mason
One hostile to masonry or free-masonry.--Worcester. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.