mason (masn)

t. [ Al buyldynges are masoned and wrought of diverse stones. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. i. Mason and Dixon's line. See line2. mason-bee (ma'sn-bē), n. An aculeate hymenopterous insect of one of the genera An thophora, Osmia, Chalicodoma, and some others, which construct their nests with grains of sand agglutinated together by means of a viscid saliva, and fix them on the side of walls, etc., or avail themselves of some cavity for that purpose. See cut under Anthophora.