cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains
(noun) the dead body of a human being; “the cadaver was intended for dissection”; “the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse”; “the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river”; “honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay”
Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser
(noun) United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay
(noun) United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
clay
(noun) a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
mud, clay
(noun) water soaked soil; soft wet earth
Source: WordNet® 3.1
clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
An earth material with ductile qualities.
(tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
(biblical) The material of the human body.
(geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
(firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
(informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
• (material of the human body): soul, spirit
• kaolin, kaoline
• ball clay
• fire clay
• potter's clay
clay (third-person singular simple present clays, present participle claying, simple past and past participle clayed)
(transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
(transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
• Lacy, acyl, lacy
Clay (plural Clays)
A surname.
A male given name from surnames.
A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.
A town, the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
Ellipsis of Clay County.
A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
• Lacy, acyl, lacy
Source: Wiktionary
Clay, n. Etym: [AS. clæg; akin to LG. klei, D. klei, and perh. to AS. clam clay, L. glus, gluten glue, Gr. glue. Cf. Clog.]
1. A soft earth, which is plastuc, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of alumunium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
2. (Poetry & Script.)
Definition: Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human 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.
– Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate.
– Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand.
– Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay.
– Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill.
– Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug.
– Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite.
– Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc.
– Fire clay , a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick.
– Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin.
– Potter's clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.
Clay, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Claying.]
1. To cover or manure with clay.
2. To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
