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o fashion. He forgeth and moldeth metals. Sir M. Hale. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me man Milton.

for shaping timber. -- Molding, or Moulding, sand (Founding), a kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.

A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.

o a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.

A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.

A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. A…

A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.

alve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidæ. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.

Clay slate; argillaceous schist.

Fat; unctuous; greasy. [Obs.] "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pisé work. Gwilt.

Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. [Obs.] Clayton.

The sole of the foot. [R.] "Knotty legs and plants of clay." B. Jonson.

Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; - - used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.

A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence. Knight.

To become soft or muddy. Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach in winter. Mortimer.

celain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing. -- Porcelain clay. See under Clay. -- Porcelain crab (Zoöl.), any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace. -- Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite. -- Porcelain printin…