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.

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