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other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. Byron. Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder. -- Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. -- Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mi…

Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. Byron.

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt.

A coat card. See below. [Obs.] Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. Massinger. Coat armor. See under Armor. -- Coat of arms (Her.), a translation of the French cotte d'armes, a garment of light material worn over the armor in the 15th and 16th centuries. This…

erse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.

Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

A trick or deception; a falsehood. Wm. Watson.

Trick; deception. Bp. Watson.

God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here. [Slang] To come it, to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]

To infold; to embrace. [Obs.] Seemed to comply, Cloudlike, the daintie deitie. Herrick.

Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken. [Obs.]

A pricking; stimulation. [Obs.] That acid piecering spirit which, with such activity and compunction, invadeth the brains and nostrils. Sir T. Browne.

ncy inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

ation; compact; covenant; treaty or league. [Obs.] The concord made between Henry and Roderick. Davies.

To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm. She conjures; away with her. Shak.

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.