clay

1. Clay
   A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. 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. Clay
   To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
3. Clay
   To cover or manure with clay.

1. (n) clay
   The material resulting from the decomposition and consequent hydration of the feldspathic rocks, especially granite and gneiss, and of the crystalline rocks in general. As thus formed, it almost always contains more or less sand, or silicious material, mechanically intermixed. After this has been separated, the clay itself is found to consist of a hydrated silicate of alumina, but it is not yet positively made out that there is one definite combination of this kind constituting the essential basis of all the substances to which the name clay is applied. All clays contain hygroscopic water, which may be expelled by heating to 212° F.; but they also contain water in chemical combination, and when this is driven off by ignition the clay loses its plasticity, which cannot be restored. Ordinary clay contains more or less lime and other impurities, which render it to a certain extent fusible. The purer varieties are refractory, and are known as fire-clay (which see). (See also pipe-clay, china-clay, porcelain-clay, and kaolinite.) The plasticity of clay is of great importance, as without this quality it could not be easily worked into the various shapes for which it is used. On what condition it depends has not as yet been clearly made out.
2. (n) clay
   Earth in general, especially in the Scriptures, as the material from which, according to the account in Genesis, the body of the first man was formed.
3. (n) clay
   Moist earth; mud; slime.
4. (n) clay
   Any viscous plastic mixture used as mortar or cement.
5. (n) clay
   The human body; especially, a dead body.
6. (n) clay
   Figuratively, anything which is easily molded, shaped, or influenced.
7. clay
   Formed or consisting of clay; characterized by the presence of clay; clayey: as, a clay soil; a clay hovel.
8. clay
   To cover or manure with clay.
9. clay
   To purify and whiten with clay, as sugar.
10. clay
    To puddle with clay.

1. (n) Clay
   klā a tenacious ductile earth: earth in general: the human body: short for clay-pipe, a tobacco-pipe made of baked clay
2. (v.t) Clay
   to purify with clay, as sugar

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