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Definition of clay

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Clay (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities..

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Malmbrick :: Malmbrick (n.) A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk..

Geophagist :: Geophagist (n.) One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc..

Model :: Model (n.) Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine..

Sagger :: Sagger (n.) The clay of which such pots or cases are made.

Loam :: Loam (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern..

Claymore :: Claymore (n.) A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

Argoile :: Argoile (n.) Potter's clay.

Cimolite :: Cimolite (n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color..

Argillo-ferruginous :: Argillo-ferruginous (a.) Containing clay and iron.

Churchwarden :: Churchwarden (n.) A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube..

Brick :: Brick (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp..

Statuminate :: Statuette (n.) A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine..

Clay :: Clay (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities..

Chibouk :: Chibouk (n.) A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay..

Tile :: Tile (n.) A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works..

Clay :: Clay (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar..

Guhr :: Guhr (n.) A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher..

Stemmed :: Stem (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole..

Sagger :: Sagger (n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar..

Argilliferous :: Argilliferous (a.) Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil.