The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of
bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.
--Layard.
2. 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.
--Weale.
3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a
penny brick (of bread).
4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
[Slang] ``He 's a dear little brick.'' --Thackeray.
{To have a brick in one's hat}, to be drunk. [Slang]
Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick
wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red.
{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 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.
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.
{To brick up}, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.