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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.

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  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.
  7. n. rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
  8. n. a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
  9. v. To stop working (of an electronic device)
  10. n:100 n. rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material n. a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy