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an 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.

A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.

To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.

A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.

g to some one. To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

t oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay. -- Argillaceous iron ore, the clay ironstone. -- Argillaceous schist or state. See Argillite.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil.