单词 | masoned |
释义 | masonedadj. 1. Built of or strengthened with masonry. Of stone: cut or dressed by a mason. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [adjective] > made or built of stone stone1420 masoneda1625 masonic1810 masonry1875 a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. i. 54 The masond Turrets. View more context for this quotation 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxii. 598 The masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without. 1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 204 Moss-masoned haunts where hermit violets hide. 1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy iv. 422 The gallery ended in the mason'd base Of a deep well-shaft. 1970 H. Braun Parish Churches ix. 118 Features more daintily formed in architectural style with properly masoned stonework. 1992 M. Hedderwick Highland Journey viii. 168 Crumbling buildings showed warm irregular round-edged stones so much more pleasing to the eye than the sharp edge masoned granite of modern Aberdeen. 2. a. Heraldry. Marked with lines representing the joints or divisions between blocks of stone. Usually as postmodifier. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [adjective] > lined to represent stonework masoned1688 masonné1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. 69/1 He beareth Argent, Masoned into seven divisions Sable. 1722 A. Nisbet Syst. Heraldry I. 418 A Castle Triple Towered Or, Masoned Sable, Windows and Ports shut Azure. 1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxix. 446 A low pillar, the base and capital masoned. 1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) xiv. 167 The Mural Crown..has the circle masoned. 1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 292/2 Argent, masoned sable: on a chief azure a demi-lion issuant Or. b. In extended use. ΚΠ 1900 Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 15 282 The whole wall surface was ‘masoned’ with broad red or white lines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1625 |
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