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Meaning of LATERITIOUS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lat"er*i"tious\, a. [L. lateritius, fr. later a
brick.]
Like bricks; of the color of red bricks.
{Lateritious sediment} (Med.), a sediment in urine resembling
   brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at
   the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of
   uric acid or urates with some coloring matter.
 
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