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y, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching. Golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows. G. Eliot.

A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.

Rickety. [Obs.] Fuller.

A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition o…

Affected with rickets.

A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.

A flooring or framework on which a rick is made.

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

Awe-struck.

A belt. See Baldric.

A belt. See Baldric.

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.