FREEMASON
- member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons), having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members
- a. one of a class of skilled stoneworkers of the Middle Ages, possessing secret signs and passwords b. member of a society composed of such workers, which also included honorary members (accepted masons) not connected with the building trade
- in the Middle Ages, a stonemason of a superior grade [n -S]