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Definition of brick : 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.
2. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick ( of bread).
4. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
5. 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.
6. To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

Synonyms:

miscue, fluff, gaffe, gaff, aggregate, adobe, Roman brick, fumble, screwup, misstep, slip, stone, cement, asbestos, glass brick, inaccuracy, stumble, flub, board, cinder block, mistake, concrete block, clanger, masonry, paved, slipup, goof, boo-boo, boob, trip, fault, blunder, boarding, clinker, brownstone, slab, pressed brick, chunk, oversight, cement block, caulk, lapse, bitumen, bobble, block

crimson, blushing, flushed, red, puce, poppy, cerise, pink, ruby, carnation, carmine, damask, scarlet, copper, vermilion, magenta, ruddy, wine-colored, cherry, cinnabar, madder, maroon

Usage examples:

• About the same time money was raised for a brick church and a brick state- house. - "England in America, 1580-1652", Lyon Gardiner Tyler.
• Cornelius found me there on the afternoon which followed his Shakspearian reading, and he said with some curiosity: " Daisy, what attraction is there in that prospect of brick and smoke?" - "Daisy Burns (Volume 2)", Julia Kavanagh.
• There's a turnstile in the brick wall of the garden, a little iron turnstile- but you know it well, both of you;" and he broke off with a laugh. - "The Turnstile", A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason.