brichet (bresh)

[OF. (ML. brica ): see bri cole.] Same as bricole, 1. brichettet (bri-shet'), n. A collective name for armor for the hips and thighs. Planché. brick1 (brik), n. [E. dial. and Sc., brick piece, fragment, this being referred to the AS. brice, bryce, a piece, fragment (cf. F. dial. brique du pain, equiv. to AS. hlafes brice, a piece of bread); but neither of the two Teut. forms, Icel. brik (with long vowel), a tablet, etc., MD. brijke (with long vowel), MD. MLG. bricke (with short vowel), a brick, tile, plate, etc., agrees in sense or form with the AS. brice, bryce, a piece, fragment, and its cognates, nor can either be brought into connection with the primitive verb of the latter (Icel. breka = MD. MLG. breken = AS. brecan, E. break ), except perhaps through the medium of the OF. But the sense of brick,' which does not belong to the AS., G., and Scand. forms, is a derived one; cf. the explanatory synonyms brick stone, brick tile. The MD. and MLG. cognates of the AS. brice, bryce (E. breach, dial. brick1, breck, q. v.) are different: see breach. Cf. MLG. bricke, LG. prikke = MD. prick, D. prik = late MHG. pryecke, prycke, G. bricke, pricke = ODan. bricke, a lamprey; appar. a different word.] I. n. 1. A kind of artificial stone made (usually) of moistened and finely kneaded clay molded into rectangular blocks (the length of which is com monly 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. [ Brick is used in the singular collectively for bricks in the ma or as a material.] Also, that no chymneys of Tymber be suffred, ne thacched houses w'yn the Cyte, but that the owners do hem awey, and make them chymneys of Stone or Bryke by mydsomer day next commynge, and tyle the thacched houses by the seid day, in peyn of lesynge of a noble. Ordinances of Worcester (1467), in Eng. Gilds, p. 386. 2. A ma or object resembling a brick: as, a brick of tea; a silver brick . Specifically-3. A loaf of bread. [Prov. Eng.] -4. In her ., a charge similar to a billet, but depicted so as to show the thickne , that is, in perspective.Bath brick, a substance used for polishing or cleaning metallic utensils, consisting of the fine silicious sand deposited in the river Parret, in Somersets hire, England, of which Bath is the capital. This material is made into bricks at Bridge water, and is extensively used in both England and America. - Blue brick, brick with a blue surface obtained in burning. They contain iron and lime, are exceedingly hard, and highly esteemed for durability.Bristol brick, a known in the United States. - Carving-brick. Same as cutlery-brick.Concave brick, a brick used in making arches or curves; a compa -brick. - Dutch bricks, bricks of a dirty brimstone-color, used for paving yards, stables, etc.-Feather-edged brick, a brick of a prismatic form used for arches, vaults, etc. - Flanders brick, a soft brick used for cleaning knives, and for similar purposes. The name is little if at all used in the United States. - Flemish brick, a species of hard yellow brick used for paving.Floating bricks, bricks made of light silicious earth called fo il meal, capable of floating on water, and also remarkable for their infusibility and as non-conductors of heat. They were made by the ancients, and the proce was rediscovered in Italy in 1791. Powder-magazines have been experimentally made of them with succe .Gaged brick, a brick made in the shape of a wedge, to conform to the radius of the soffit of an arch. - Green a name by which Bath brick is sometimes brick, a brick not yet burned; unfinished brick.-Hollow brick, a brick made with perforations through it for heating or ventilating purposes, or to prevent moisture from penetrating a wall. Place-brick, common rough brick, for walks, cellars, etc. - Pre ed brick, brick which has been pre ed in a machine or clamp, and is thus more compact and smoother than ordinary brick. It is used for fronts and the finest work. Salmon brick, a light, soft brick, of inferior quality, and of a light saffron color, due to incomplete burning. Stone brick, a very hard kind of brick made at Neath, in Wales, much used in the construc tion of furnaces, from its power of resisting heat.-To have a brick in one's hat, to be intoxicated. [Colloq.] - Washed brick, a brick that has been exposed to the rain before being burned, and hence of inferior grade. II. a. Made of brick; resembling brick: as, a brick wall; a brick -red color. brick2 (brik), v. t . [ in with bricks. A narrow street, closely bricked in on all sides like a tomb. Dickens. 2. To build in with bricks; place in brickwork. Brick me into that wall there for a chimney-piece, And say I was one o' the Cæsars, done by a seal-cutter. Fletcher, Rule a Wife, iv. 3. 3. 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 edge tool, and then filled with fine plaster to resemble brickwork.