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Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.

rtland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.

Portulacaceæ), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.

ma of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. Parkers. -- Potter's clay. See under Clay. -- Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in Matt. xxvii. 7. -- Potter's ore. See…

A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles. [Written also pryan.]

young Edward's sword did print. Sir John Beaumont. Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. Roscommon.

fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.

The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.

To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

ter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion. The pure fetters on his shins great. Chaucer. A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. I. Watts.

A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.

y causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

cohesive. [Obs.] Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Mortimer.

A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a segga.

e island of Samos. Fill high the cup with Samian wine. Byreon. Samian earth, a species of clay from Samoa, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.