meaning of brick
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.
2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
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.
5. To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
6. 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.
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