n. A breach.n. A rent or flaw.n. A portion of land (apparently the same as breck, 4).To break by pulling back.n. A kind of artificial stone made (usually) of moistened and finely kneaded clay molded into rectangular blocks (the length of which is commonly twice the breadth), and hardened by being burned in a kiln, or sometimes, especially in warm countries, by being dried in the sun. Sun-dried bricks are usually now, as in remote antiquity, mixed with chopped straw to give them greater tenacity. (See adobe.) Bricks in the United States and Europe are generally red (see brick-clay), but some clays produce yellowish bricks, as for example the Milwaukee brick much used as an ornamental building material in the United States. The bricks made in China and Japan are invariably of a slaty-blue color.n. A mass or object resembling a brick: as, a brick of tea; a silver brick. Specificallyn. A loaf of bread.n. In heraldry, a charge similar to a billet, but depicted so as to show the thickness, that is, in perspective.Made of brick; resembling brick; as, a brick wall; a brick-red color.To lay or pave with bricks, or to surround, close, or wall in with bricks.To build in with bricks; place in brickwork.To give the appearance of brick to: said of a plastered wall when it is smeared with red ocher and joints are made in it with an edgetool, and then filled with fine plaster to resemble brickwork.n. A good fellow, in an emphatic sense: a term of admiration bestowed on one who on occasion or habitually shows in a modest way great or unexpected courage, kindness, or thoughtfulness, or other admirable qualities.n. “In brief I don't stick to declare Father Dick, So they called him for short, was a regular brick; A metaphor taken, I have not the page aright, Out of an ethical work by the Stagyrite.”n. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, Brothers of Birchington.n.