CÆMENT, among builders, a strong sort of mortar, used to bind bricks or stones together for some kind of mouldings; or in cementing a block of bricks for the carving of capitals, scrolls, or the like. There are two sorts, 1. Hot cement, which is the most common, made of resin, bees-wax, brick-dust, and chalk, boiled together. The bricks to be cemented with this kind, must be made hot with the fire, and rubbed to and fro after the cement is spread, in the same manner as joiners do when they glue two boards together. 2. Cold cement, made of Cheshire-cheese, milk, quick-lime, and whites of eggs. This cement is less used than the former, and is accounted a secret known but to few bricklayers.