- Building block - Fired-clay block - widely used in construction - 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. - Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material;
as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. - Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a
penny brick (of bread). - A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.