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icks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

n body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. I also am formed out of the clay. Job xxxiii. 6. The earth is covered thick with 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.…

Stupid. [Obs.] Shak.

Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments. [Obs.]

Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.

ferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay.

One who delays; one who lingers.

By delays. [R.] Tennyson.

Hindrance. [Obs.] Gower.

ead wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread. The northern wind his wings did broad display. Spenser.

Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.

One who, or that which, displays.

-- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.

See Inlay.

To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. Shak.

One who strips off the skin.