1. (n.) 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. (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

3. (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

4. (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.

5. (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

6. (v. t.) 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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