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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.

To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

Brick"bat` (&?;), n. A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. Bacon.

Brick"kiln` (&?;), 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.

Brick"lay`er (&?;), n. [Brick + lay.] One whose occupation is to build with bricks.

Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.

Brick"lay`ing, 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.

Bric"kle (&?;), a. [OE. brekil, brokel, bruchel, fr. AS. brecan, E. break. Cf. Brittle.] Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser.

As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

Bric"kle*ness, n. Brittleness. [Obs.]

Brick"mak`er (&?;), n. One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.

Brick"work` (&?;), n. 1. Anything made of bricks.

Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson.

2. The act of building with or laying bricks.

Brick"y (&?;), a. Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. [R.] Spenser.

Brick"yard` (&?;), n. A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

||Bri*cole" (&?;), n. [F.] (Mil.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

Brid (&?;), n. A bird. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Brid"al (&?;), a. [From Bride. Cf. Bridal, n.] Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.

Brid"al, n. [OE. bridale, brudale, AS. brdealo brideale, bridal feast. See Bride, and Ale, 2.] A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. Herbert.

Brid"al*ty (&?;), n. Celebration of the nuptial feast. [Obs.] "In honor of this bridalty." B. Jonson.

Bride (brd), n. [OE. bride, brid, brude, brud, burd, AS. brd; akin to OFries. breid, OSax. brd, D. bruid, OHG. prt, brt, G. braut, Icel. brðr, Sw. & Dan. brud, Goth. brþs; cf. Armor. pried spouse, W. priawd a married person.] 1. A woman newly married, or about to be married.

Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lyttleton.

I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. xxi. 9.

2. Fig.: An object ardently loved.

Bride of the sea, the city of Venice.

Bride, v. t. To make a bride of. [Obs.]