Word Meanings - BRICKBAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• BRICK
  breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique piece, brique de pain, equiv. to 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. The
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• BRICKY
  Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. Spenser.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• BRICKWORK
  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.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• BRICKKILN
  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.
• FRAGMENTIST
  A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbüttel.
• FRAGMENTED
  Broken into fragments.
• BRICKYARD
  A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• FRAGMENTARINESS
  The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.
• BRICKLE
  Brittle; easily broken. Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• BRICKLENESS
  Brittleness.
• BRICKFIELDER
  Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney,
• BRICKLAYER
  One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• MALM; MALMBRICK
  A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• ARCH BRICK
  A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• SEAPIECE
  A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.