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Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson.

Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. [R.] Spenser.

A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

A carack. See Carack. Carrick bend (Naut.), a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. -- Carrick bitts (Naut.), the bitts which support the windlass. Totten.

of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. Holland.

To play at cricket. Tennyson.

One who plays at cricket.

stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building. Derrick crane, a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.

A gentle trot, like that of a dog.

To trick, to perplex. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

The mole cricket. [Prov. Eng.]

A bushel basket. [Obs.]

The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). [Prov. Eng.]

A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.

Shocked; dismayed.

A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as --

A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

ock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who naglected to brand his cattle.

est cattleman, who, without owning any stock, gradually accumulates a herd by finding mavericks. [Western U. S.]

A species of gull or tern. [Prov.] Lowell.