See also:

• ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " brick ")

ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to See also:

• PLASTER

plaster, traceable through Arabic to an See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick ")  , a See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish-See also:

• AMERICAN

American word for the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun-dried See also:

• CLAY (from O. Eng. claeg, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Klei)
• CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS (1810-1903)
• CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
• CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)
• CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)

clay used by the See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians for See also:

• BUILDING

building in some of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-western states of the American See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union, this method having been imported in the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century by Spaniards from See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico, See also:

• PERU
• PERU (apparently from Biru, a small river on the west coast of Colombia, where Pizarro landed)

Peru, &c . A distinction is made between the smaller " adobes," which are about the See also:

• SIZE

size of See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary baked bricks, and the larger " adobines, " some of which are as much as from one to two yards See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long .