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Freemason


Definition:

  • (n.) One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By 6 May oil was reported as reaching the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana and Freemason Island in the Breton national wildlife refuge .
  • (2) But he and Mozart were both freemasons and, at a time when the movement was regarded by the Archduke as a potentially subversive political threat, sought to create an opera that is about spiritual trial and initiation.
  • (3) According to journalists and investigators who worked with him, Rees exploited his position as a freemason to make links with masonic police officers who illegally sold him information on targets chosen by the News of the World, the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Mirror.
  • (4) One friendly freemason engaged my three-year-old, who was dressed as Dracula, in banter about her outfit, rich coming from a man who moments before was blindfolded in a pair of one-legged trousers, like the singer from Imagination.
  • (5) In May 2010, there appears a bizarre spat with another Wiki contributor, Widefox, over claims that Shapps was a member of the Freemasons.
  • (6) Sadly, the temple and museum were closed that day, as the freemasons were assembled within, deciding the future of the world.
  • (7) Colin Ashford, who makes cufflinks, medals and regalia for Freemasons, in a Victorian workshop, doubted the government's figures on jobs and growth.
  • (8) Last Saturday, I took my children on a tour of the Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden.
  • (9) Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
  • (10) The Bank's building looks impenetrable and its internal structure reeks of hierarchy, like a Freemason's hall.
  • (11) The US coastguard confirmed for the first time that oil had made its way past protective booms and was surrounding Freemason Island.
  • (12) Interestingly, all the Freemasons I spoke to that weekend were either builders or were in the police service.
  • (13) Bin Laden also owned Bloodlines of the Illuminati, by Fritz Springmeier, an Oregon man who has written extensively about the eponymous semi-historical sect, mind control, Jehovah’s witnesses and Freemasons.
  • (14) But, luckily for my disappointed children, suddenly hundreds of freemasons streamed from the temple into Covent Garden, each dressed in trademark black suit, and carrying a little bag just big enough to hold his apron, his dagger and some Shippam’s fish paste sandwiches from his freemason mum, in case he got hungry while manipulating global events.
  • (15) The father of two has previously declared a membership of the freemasons, although he said in 2009 that he had not been active for many years.
  • (16) Italian-speakers might enjoy Libernazione.it , a website that has an automatic generator of Grillini insults, mostly about banks, subservient media, freemasons and corrupt politicians.
  • (17) Messina Denaro is allegedly shielded by powerful freemasons in the port town of Trapani , near Castelvetrano, where magistrates probing mafia-masonry links last year received anonymous death threats and discovered a listening device in their office.

Mason


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
  • (n.) A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
  • (v. t.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
  • (2) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
  • (3) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
  • (4) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Ali Mason (@alimason) Reassuring to see the #redsox aren't the only ones who can find stupid ways to lose.
  • (5) Nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis as well as immunologic reactivity indicated that the isolated virus was highly related to Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV).
  • (6) To celebrate, he hosted a social weekend in a south coast hotel where selected non-Masons like myself were temporarily tolerated.
  • (7) In a letter to potential investors, Groupon's co-founder and chief executive, Andrew Mason, warned future growth could come at the expense of profit.
  • (8) Ava had moved to London to star opposite James Mason as the Empress of Austria in the film Mayerling .
  • (9) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
  • (10) Envelope antigens of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) and the morphologically similar HeLa virus, which is continuously produced in some HeLa cell lines, were compared by indirect immunoferritin techniques.
  • (11) Paul Mason is economics editor at Channel 4 News and the author of Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere .
  • (12) Paul Mason, among others, has called for Labour to win voters back from the Green Party .
  • (13) In a letter to Cescau, who was formerly chief executive of Unilever, CtW urges him to personally step forward at the annual meeting to detail the steps the board is taking to assess the viability of its strategy for Fresh & Easy and to restore the link between pay and performance for Mason.
  • (14) | Paul Mason Read more Donald Trump, for his part, couldn’t quite grasp the scale of Obama’s plan: “Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria.
  • (15) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
  • (16) Edward Mason, Church Commissioner and head of responsible investment, says: “That’s certainly a role that we try to play; it’s an area we are very active in.
  • (17) The 25,000 dalton protein of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) was isolated by gel filtration chromatography.
  • (18) So I don’t see ethanol being that huge of a wedge issue for Cruz.” He was echoed by Jeff Kaufmann, the chair of the Republican Party of Iowa, who said: “I am not convinced that issue, in and of itself, will either cause a candidate to win or lose.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee looks at products made at Golden Grain Energy, an ethanol plant in Mason City, Iowa.
  • (19) Out Kyle Walker (Villa, loan), David Bentley (B'ham, loan) , Jamie O'Hara (Wolves, loan) , Robbie Keane (West Ham, loan) , Harry Kane (L Orient, loan), Jonathan Obika (Peterborough, loan), Ryan Mason (Doncaster, loan), Tommy Carroll (L Orient, loan), Gio dos Santos (Racing Santander, loan).
  • (20) Radioactive DNA ([(3)H]cDNA) complementary to the RNA of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus was used in molecular hybridization experiments to demonstrate sequence homology between its viral RNA and RNA of human malignant breast tumors.

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