A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Awe-struck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A belt. See Baldric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A belt. See Baldric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brik, F. brique; of Ger. origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hlāfes brice, fr. the root of E. break. See Break. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [ Slang ] “He 's a dear little brick.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brick clay, clay suitable for, or used in making, bricks. --
Brick dust, dust of pounded or broken bricks. --
Brick earth, clay or earth suitable for, or used in making, bricks. --
Brick loaf, a loaf of bread somewhat resembling a brick in shape. --
Brick nogging (Arch.), rough brickwork used to fill in the spaces between the uprights of a wooden partition; brick filling. --
Brick tea, tea leaves and young shoots, or refuse tea, steamed or mixed with fat, etc., and pressed into the form of bricks. It is used in Northern and Central Asia. S. W. Williams. --
Brick trimmer (Arch.), a brick arch under a hearth, usually within the thickness of a wooden floor, to guard against accidents by fire. --
Brick trowel. See Trowel. --
Brick works, a place where bricks are made. --
Bath brick. See under Bath, a city. --
Pressed brick, bricks which, before burning, have been subjected to pressure, to free them from the imperfections of shape and texture which are common in molded bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bricked p. pr. & vb. n. Bricking. ] 1. To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A piece or fragment of a brick. See 1st Bat, n. 4. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. genus of herbs of SW America having usually creamy florets followed by one-seeded fruits in a prominent bristly sheath.
Syn. -- genus Brickelia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a place where bricks are made and sold.
Syn. -- brickyard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Australia ] 1. Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Brick + lay. ] One whose occupation is to build with bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. brekil, brokel, bruchel, fr. AS. brecan, E. break. Cf. Brittle. ] Brittle; easily broken. [ Obs. or Prov. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Brittleness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. Anything made of bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of building with or laying bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A carack. See Carack. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carrick bend (Naut.), a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. --
Carrick bitts (Naut.), the bitts which support the windlass. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Creak. ] The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The same as creek a bending, twisting. See Creek, Crook. ] 1. A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. [ 1913 Webster ]

To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. F. cric. ] A small jackscrew. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play at cricket. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak. ] (Zool.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are Gryllus niger, Gryllus neglectus, and others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Balm cricket. See under Balm. --
Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler. --
Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool probably having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch. ] 1. A low stool. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who plays at cricket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Orig., a gallows, from a hangman named Derrick. The name is of Dutch origin; D. Diederik, Dierryk, prop. meaning, chief of the people; cf. AS. peódric, E. Theodoric, G. Dietrich. See Dutch, and Rich. ] 1. A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, and usually pivoted at the base, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, such as stones in building. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) The pyramidal structure or tower over a deep drill hole, such as that of an oil well (also called an oil derrick . [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Derrick crane, a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gentle trot, like that of a dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OE. entriken to perplex, OF. entriquer. Cf. Trick, Intrigue. ] To trick, to perplex. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The mole cricket. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a brick made of fire clay, used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A bushel basket. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an idle worthless person. [ slang ]
Syn. -- goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The evasion of work or duty. [ informal ]
Syn. -- shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shocked; dismayed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Said to be from a song with the same verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which contains the place name Limerick. ] A humorous, often nonsensical, and sometimes risqé poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet, and rhyme, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rhyme. It often begins with "There once was a . . ." or "There was a . . ."; as -- There was a young lady, Amanda,
Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de
Siècle, I deem
But her Journal Intime
Was what sent her papa to Uganda.
[ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. An feat of illusion performed by an illusionist, which appears magical to naive observers.
Syn. -- conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, illusion, deception. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Cf. AS. mealm sand. ] A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To take a maverick. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A brand originated by a dishonest cattleman, who, without owning any stock, gradually accumulates a herd by finding mavericks. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zool.) A species of gull or tern. [ Prov. ] Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Moonstruck. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Struck with a panic, or sudden fear; thrown into a state of intense fear; as, trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd. Burke.
Syn. -- panicky, petrified, terrified, frightened. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like planet-stricken men of yore
He trembles, smitten to the core
By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. prick, pricke, D. prik, Dan. prik, prikke, Sw. prick. Cf. Prick, v. ] 1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts ix. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. “The pricks of conscience.” A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. Hence: (a) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. [ Obs. ] “The prick of noon.” Shak. (b) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. “They that shooten nearest the prick.” Spenser. (c) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. [ Obs. ] “To prick of highest praise forth to advance.” Spenser. (d) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. (e) The footprint of a hare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pricked p. pr. & vb. n. Pricking. ] [ AS. prician; akin to LG. pricken, D. prikken, Dan. prikke, Sw. pricka. See Prick, n., and cf. Prink, Prig. ] 1. To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cooks prick it [ a slice ] on a prong of iron. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some who are pricked for sheriffs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The season pricketh every gentle heart. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

My duty pricks me on to utter that. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. “I was pricked with some reproof.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. “The courser . . . pricks up his ears.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To render acid or pungent. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Naut) (a) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. (b) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Far.) (a) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. (b) To nick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To aim at a point or mark. Hawkins. [ 1913 Webster ]