Brick: Definition and part of speech

Brick

  1. n. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you ‘re a brick.
  2. 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.
  3. n. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
  4. n. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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