brick
    n 1: rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln;
         used as a building or paving material
    2: a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

paved \paved\ adj.
   1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.
      [Narrower terms: asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac,
      tarmacadam; blacktopped, brick, cobblestone,
      cobblestoned] [Ant: unpaved]

   Syn: hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up [British], sealed
        [Australian].
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Brick \Brick\ (br[i^]k), n. [OE. brik, F. brique; of Ger.
   origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique
   piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hl[=a]fes 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.
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            The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of
            bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.
                                                  --Layard.
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   2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of
      material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
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            Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick.
                                                  --Weale.
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   3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a
      penny brick (of bread).
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   4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
      [Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." --Thackeray.
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   To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]
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   Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick
         wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red.
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   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.
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Brick \Brick\, 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.
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   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.
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   To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.
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brick
 n.

    1. A piece of equipment that has been programmed or configured into a hung
    , wedged,unusable state. Especially used to describe what happens to
    devices like routers or PDAs that run from firmware when the firmware image
    is damaged or its settings are somehow patched to impossible values. This
    term usually implies irreversibility, but equipment can sometimes be
    unbricked by performing a hard reset or some other drastic operation.
    Sometimes verbed: ?Yeah, I bricked the router because I forgot about adding
    in the new access-list.?.

    2. An outboard power transformer of the kind associated with laptops,
    modems, routers and other small computing appliances, especially one of the
    modern type with cords on both ends, as opposed to the older and obnoxious
    type that plug directly into wall or barrier strip.