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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.

A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. Bacon.

by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.

The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

Brittleness. [Obs.]

One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.

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 wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.

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

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosis.

ed States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick. Knight.

To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.