Brick /(brĭk)/
Brick
n.
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A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.
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Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick.
- Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
- A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang]
Phrases & Compounds
- To have a brick in one's hat
- to be drunk.
- Brick clay
- clay suitable for, or used in making, bricks.
- Brick dust
- dust of pounded or broken bricks.
- Brick earth
- clay or earth suitable for, or used in making, bricks.
- Brick loaf
- a loaf of bread somewhat resembling a brick in shape.
- Brick nogging
- rough brickwork used to fill in the spaces between the uprights of a wooden partition; brick filling.
- Brick tea
- tea leaves and young shoots, or refuse tea, steamed or mixed with fat, etc., and pressed into the form of bricks. It is used in Northern and Central Asia.
- Brick trimmer
- a brick arch under a hearth, usually within the thickness of a wooden floor, to guard against accidents by fire.
- Brick trowel
- See Trowel.
- Brick works
- a place where bricks are made.
- Bath brick
- See under Bath, a city.
- Pressed brick
- bricks which, before burning, have been subjected to pressure, to free them from the imperfections of shape and texture which are common in molded bricks.
Brick
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Bricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bricking
- To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
- To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.
Phrases & Compounds
- To brick up
- to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.