Masonry

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

the art or occupation of a mason; the art of so arranging stones or brick as to produce a regular construction. The masonry of the ancient Egyptians was remarkable for the large size of the stones employed, oyed, sometimes as much as 30 feet in length. They were laid without mortar. The Cyclopean or earlier masonry of the Greeks, some re- 71 30 72°30′ B 73°30′ A Manchester Newfane Keene Merrimack R Bennington 01800H R NT R E H H S MP A W N E R. Ashuelot Souhegan Brattleboro Milford R. Petersburg Deerfiel Nashua R Monamonac L Long Pd. Clarksburg arg Monrce Monroe Line V. Northfield E. Northfield Elm Grove Cyrus Tyngsboro Villiamstown Sta Winchendono Winchendon prs. Bridge Blackinton N.Heath Northfield Mt Grace W.Leyden Leyden Paugus Williamstown/o Rowe • Sonsville Colerain Long Rd. Royalston N.Ashburnham Pepperell Dunstabl Mt. Hermon Davis Warwick Naukeay Pd-W. Townsend Townsend North, Adams E. Pepperell Saddle Mt. 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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 par 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. MASONRY. See FREEMASON. MASON SPIDER (Mygale or Cteniza cæmentaria), a spider more commonly known as the "trap-door spider."