[机] 砖土

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.

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.