masonry

[Fr. maçonnerie, from maçonner =to do masons' work.] 2642 stones employed, sometimes as much as thirty feet in length. They were laid without mortar. The Cyclopean or earlier masonry of the Greeks, some remains of which exist in the walls of Mycense and Tiryns, was formed of large and irregularly shaped ma es of stone, the interstices being filled with smaller stones. In a few of the earlier English buildings, considered by some to be Saxon, the quoins, the door, and window-jambs, and occasionally some other parts, were formed of stones alternately laid flat and set up endwise; the latter were usually much longer than the others. This is termed "long and short" work. "Stones and mortar, and all the instruments of ma sonry."-Hume: On the Understanding, § 11. 2. The work executed by a mason. "The lighthouse lifts its ma ive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day." Long fellow: Lighthouse. 3. The craft, mysteries, or principles of Freemasonry (q. v.). ma soô lạ, mas-soô-la, ma-su-lah, subst. [Native name.] Naut.: A boat of the Coromandel coast, adapted to be beached on the surf-beaten shore. The planks are sewed together with coir, over wads of the same material which pre upon the seams. They are 30 to 35 feet long, 10 to 11 feet beam, 7 to 8 feet deep, and are rowed by twelve men, oars double banked, and a steersman with an oar at the stern.