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Mason   /mˈeɪsən/   Listen
Mason

noun
1.
American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792).  Synonym: George Mason.
2.
English film actor (1909-1984).  Synonyms: James Mason, James Neville Mason.
3.
English writer (1865-1948).  Synonyms: A. E. W. Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason.
4.
A craftsman who works with stone or brick.  Synonym: stonemason.
5.
A member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love.  Synonym: Freemason.



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... computed by Robert Nemiroff (George Mason University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Jerry Bonnell (Universities Space Research Association and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). The digits have been checked by them but they welcome others to check them as well. ...
— Number "e" (Natural Log) to Approximately 1 Million Places • Robert Nemiroff

... communicating with the rooms. Hand-bills were pinned to the walls, announcing that William Higgins was paying good prices for "likely" field hands, that Timothy Ingersoll's stock of dry goods was the finest in Piedmont, that James Mason's mulatto woman, named Rachel, had decamped on the night of Whitsuntide, and that one hundred dollars would be paid by the subscriber for her return. Most of these bills were out of date, but some recent ones were exhibited to me calling ...
— Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, - and His Romaunt Abroad During the War • George Alfred Townsend

... already dead in the eyes of the people. She feels herself dead in her heart, killed by what she has loved. You shall see her mount in the tower, see how the stones are inserted, hear the scraping of the trowels and hear the people who hurry forward with their stones. "Oh mason, take mine, take mine! Use my stone for the work of vengeance! Let my stone help to shut Ung-Hanse's daughter in from light and air! Visby is fallen, the glorious Visby! God bless your hands, oh masons! Let me help to complete ...
— Invisible Links • Selma Lagerlof

... in good order. General Howard in desperation sent the cavalry, under Chief-of-Staff E. C. Mason, to find the Pierced Noses and hold them. Colonel Mason did not find them—they found him, and he was very glad to return ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin

... you inform me in whose possession is the MS. essay on "Roman Roads," written by the late Dr. Charles Mason, to which I find allusion in a MS. letter of ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 • Various


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