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Clay
CLAY, n.
1. The name of certain substances which are mixtures of silex and alumin, sometimes with lime, magnesia, alkali and metallic oxyds. A species of earths which are firmly coherent, weighty, compact, and hard when dry, but stiff, viscid and ductile when moist, and smooth to the touch; not readily diffusible in water, and when mixed, not readily subsiding in it. They contract by heat. Clays absorb water greedily, and become soft, but are so tenacious as to be molded into any shape, and hence they are the materials of bricks and various vessels, domestic and chimical.
2. In poetry and in scripture, earth in general.
3. In scripture, clay is used to express frailty, liableness to decay and destruction.
They that dwell in houses of clay. Job 4.
CLAY, v.t.
1. To cover or manure with clay.
2. To purify and whiten with clay, as sugar.
clay appears in definitions for these words:
Accloy Adamic Allophane Alum Alumin Ammonite Anoint Argil Argillaceous Argilliferous Argillite Argillocalcite Argillomurite Argillous Armenian Bark-galled Bed Bezoar Bind Bolary Bole Brick Brickbat Brickearth Calciferous Capsule Chalk Cimolite Clay Clay-cold Clay-ground Clay-land Clay-marl Clay-pit Clay-slate Clay-stone Clayed Clayey Clayish Clunch Cohere Collyrite Composition Consolidate Costive Crockery Crust Diffusibility Disencumber Earthen Embed Experience Fallow Fashion Figulate Fireclay Form Fossil-copal Fullers-earth Guhr Harden Heavy How Hydrargillite Impress Inadhesion Indurate Inunctuosity Kaolin Kollyrite Layer Leming Lenzinite Loam Luting Margode Marl Mold Muddy Ocher Of Petunse Pipe Poach Print Pure Pureness Red-chalk Sadden Serpent Shale Shist Smitt Sphragid Steen Stone Strata Stratify Sugar Sump Support Suspensibility Take Tenaciousness Terre-plein Tertiary Thyite Tile Tile-earth Tobacco-pipe Trunk Turbid Tutty Underlaid Unlute Urry Wacky Wallerite Wheel White-land Yellow-earth
Accloy Adamic Allophane Alum Alumin Ammonite Anoint Argil Argillaceous Argilliferous Argillite Argillocalcite Argillomurite Argillous Armenian Bark-galled Bed Bezoar Bind Bolary Bole Brick Brickbat Brickearth Calciferous Capsule Chalk Cimolite Clay Clay-cold Clay-ground Clay-land Clay-marl Clay-pit Clay-slate Clay-stone Clayed Clayey Clayish Clunch Cohere Collyrite Composition Consolidate Costive Crockery Crust Diffusibility Disencumber Earthen Embed Experience Fallow Fashion Figulate Fireclay Form Fossil-copal Fullers-earth Guhr Harden Heavy How Hydrargillite Impress Inadhesion Indurate Inunctuosity Kaolin Kollyrite Layer Leming Lenzinite Loam Luting Margode Marl Mold Muddy Ocher Of Petunse Pipe Poach Print Pure Pureness Red-chalk Sadden Serpent Shale Shist Smitt Sphragid Steen Stone Strata Stratify Sugar Sump Support Suspensibility Take Tenaciousness Terre-plein Tertiary Thyite Tile Tile-earth Tobacco-pipe Trunk Turbid Tutty Underlaid Unlute Urry Wacky Wallerite Wheel White-land Yellow-earth
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