attributive or adj. Resembling in appearance the bones of a herring. Architecture. Applied to a kind of masonry and of paving in which the stones or…

Of masonry: consisting of stones of irregular sizes and shapes. Cf. random-jointed adj. at compounds 1b.

Designating a construction, or course of bricks, in which each brick is laid with its smallest face showing in the external vertical surface…

Historical. Applied to an ancient style of masonry in which the stones are of immense size and more or less irregular shape; found in Greece…

Of masonry: Not laid or set in courses.

Masonry and Bricklaying. Designating a style of construction in which long and short blocks or bricks are placed alternately in a vertical line…

Said of a brick or stone laid with its length across a wall (also called a header); also of a wall built wholly or mainly of bricks or stones thus…

Designating a stone, piece of turf, etc., extending through the breadth of a wall or dyke so as to bind the sides together (cf. band-stone n. at band…

Of the nature of, or belonging to, isodomon.

Of masonry: Laid or set in courses.

Of a house or other structure: faced with brick veneer.

Designating a brick or stone laid with its length parallel to the face of a wall. Cf. inbond, adj., stretcher, n. 10a.

of a stone: placed so that its natural bed (or horizontal surface) forms a vertical joint of the work; distinguished from face-bedded, in which the…

Built of squared stones, but of different sizes and not laid in regular courses.

a form of Flemish bond (Flemish bond at bond, n.1 13a) in which the bricks are laid on edge and the headers span the whole thickness of wall…

furnished with coigns or corner-stones.