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Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [R.] Johnson.

refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. -- Fire brigade, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. -- Fire bucket. See under Bucket. -- Fire bug, an incendiary;…

Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it. [Written also flookan, flukan, and fluccan.]

t; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore,…

One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are…

A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.

A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.

One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc.

The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. [An amendment] must be germane. Barclay (Digest).

A claymore. Johnson.

cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher. P. Cleaveland.

A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.

for cementing under water, etc. -- Hydraulic limestone, a limestone which contains some clay, and which yields a quicklime that will set, or form a firm, strong mass, under water. -- Hydraulic main (Gas Works), a horizontal pipe containing water at the bottom into which the ends of the pipes from the retorts dip, fo…

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart. Goldsmith.

ant of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan.

A hard, earthy ore of iron. Clay ironstone. See under Clay. -- Ironstone china, a hard white pottery, first made in England during the 18th century.