资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Brick \Brick\, 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.

            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 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.