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A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.

Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.

dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions. No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass. Dryden.

To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court. With silver paved, and all divine with gold. Dryden. To pave thy r…

ace for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.…

A brick or slab used for paving.

Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall. Knight.

Overburned bricks. Simmonds.

A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.

used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar. [India]

To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

ocess of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

A square brick, tile, or the like.

To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft. Raking course (Bricklaying), a course of bricks laid diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen.

Am extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways

hich the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.

rpretation of an idea, theme, or part. (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.