'Brick' definitions:
Definition of 'brick'
From: WordNet
noun
Rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
noun
A good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
Definition of 'Brick'
From: GCIDE
- Brick \Brick\ (br[i^]k), n. [OE. brik, F. brique; of Ger. origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hl[=a]fes brice, fr. the root of E. break. See Break.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. --Layard. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. [1913 Webster]
- Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. --Weale. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). [1913 Webster]
- 4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red. [1913 Webster]
- 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 (Arch.), 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. --S. W. Williams.
- Brick trimmer (Arch.), 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Brick'
From: GCIDE
- Brick \Brick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bricking.]
- 1. To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'brick'
From: GCIDE
- paved \paved\ adj.
- 1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways. [Narrower terms: {asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac, tarmacadam}; blacktopped, brick, {cobblestone, cobblestoned}] [Ant: unpaved]
- Syn: hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up [British], sealed [Australian]. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'brick'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adamant,
- adobe,
- ashlar,
- asphalt,
- biscuit,
- bisque,
- bitumen,
- bituminous macadam,
- blacktop,
- block,
- board,
- bone,
- bowl,
- bricks and mortar,
- buddy,
- cement,
- ceramic ware,
- ceramics,
- china,
- chum,
- chunk,
- clapboard,
- clinker,
- cobble,
- cobblestone,
- comrade,
- concrete,
- covering materials,
- crackerjack,
- crock,
- crockery,
- cube,
- curb,
- curbing,
- curbstone,
- diamond,
- doll,
- edgestone,
- enamelware,
- face,
- ferroconcrete,
- firebrick,
- flag,
- flagging,
- flagstone,
- flint,
- flooring,
- friend,
- glass,
- glaze,
- good egg,
- good guy,
- good Joe,
- granite,
- gravel,
- heart of oak,
- hunk,
- iron,
- jug,
- kerb,
- kerbstone,
- lath,
- lath and plaster,
- likely lad,
- macadam,
- marble,
- masonry,
- mortar,
- nails,
- nice guy,
- no slouch,
- oak,
- pal,
- paper,
- pavement,
- pavestone,
- paving,
- paving material,
- paving stone,
- plank,
- plasters,
- porcelain,
- pot,
- pottery,
- prestressed concrete,
- pussycat,
- refractory,
- revet,
- road metal,
- rock,
- roofage,
- roofing,
- shake,
- sheathe,
- shingle,
- siding,
- slab,
- slate,
- steel,
- stone,
- stout fellow,
- Tarmac,
- tarmacadam,
- Tarvia,
- thatch,
- tile,
- tiling,
- trump,
- urn,
- vase,
- veneer,
- wall in,
- wall up,
- walling,
- wallpaper,
- washboard,
- weatherboard
Words containing 'Brick'
- Bricked,
- Bricking,
- To brick up,
- brick in,
- brick over,
- brick up,
- brickly,
- bricks,
- Bath brick,
- Brick clay,
- Brick dust,
- Brick earth,
- Brick loaf,
- Brick nogging,
- Brick tea,
- Brick trimmer,
- Brick trowel,
- Brick works,
- Bristol brick,
- Facing brick,
- Fire brick,
- Flemish brick,
- Flint brick,
- Frit brick,
- Gauged brick,
- Lath brick,
- Pressed brick,
- adobe brick,
- brick cheese,
- brick red,
- bricks and mortar,
- clinker brick,
- mud brick,
- row of bricks,
- To have a brick in one's hat,
- brick-shaped,
- mud-brick,
- red-brick