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clay
noun
1 clay
A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
Roget 635:
material,
raw material,
stuff,
stock,
staple;
adobe,
brown stone;
chinking;
clapboard;
daubing;
puncheon;
shake;
shingle,
bricks and mortar;
metal;
stone;
clay,
brick crockery
etc.
384;
compo,
composition;
concrete;
reinforced concrete,
cement;
wood,
ore,
timber.
materials;
supplies,
munition,
fuel,
grist,
household stuff pabulum
etc.
(food)
298;
ammunition
etc.
(arms)
727;
contingents;
relay,
reinforcement,
reenforcement†;
baggage
etc.
(personal property)
780;
means
etc.
632;
calico,
cambric,
cashmere.
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Roget 324:
softness,
pliableness
etc.
adj.;
flexibility;
pliancy,
pliability;
sequacity†,
malleability;
ductility,
tractility†;
extendibility,
extensibility;
plasticity;
inelasticity,
flaccidity,
laxity.
penetrability.
clay,
wax,
butter,
dough,
pudding;
alumina,
argil;
cushion,
pillow,
feather bed,
down,
padding,
wadding;
foam.
mollification;
softening
etc.
v..
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Roget 342:
land,
earth,
ground,
dry land,
terra firma.
continent,
mainland,
peninsula,
chersonese [Fr.],
delta;
tongue of land,
neck of land;
isthmus,
oasis;
promontory
etc.
(projection)
250;
highland
etc.
(height)
206.
coast,
shore,
scar,
strand,
beach;
playa;
bank,
lea;
seaboard,
seaside,
seabank†,
seacoast,
seabeach†;
ironbound coast;
loom of the land;
derelict;
innings;
alluvium,
alluvion†;
ancon.
riverbank,
river bank,
levee.
soil,
glebe,
clay,
loam,
marl,
cledge†,
chalk,
gravel,
mold,
subsoil,
clod,
clot;
rock,
crag.
acres;
real estate
etc.
(property)
780;
landsman†.
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Dutch: leem, klei, kleigrond
Polish: glinka
2 clay
Water soaked soil; soft wet earth.
synonym: mud.
Dutch: smurrie, bagger, blubber, modder, prut, slib, slijk, slik, slobber
Polish: błoto
3 Clay
United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978).
synonyms: Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay.
4 Clay
5 clay
The dead body of a human being:
— Honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay.
synonyms: cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff.
Roget 362:
corpse,
corse†,
carcass,
cadaver,
bones,
skeleton,
dry bones;
defunct,
relics,
reliquiae [Lat.],
remains,
mortal remains,
dust,
ashes,
earth,
clay;
mummy;
carrion;
food for worms,
food for fishes;
tenement of clay this mortal coil.
shade,
ghost,
manes.
organic remains,
fossils.
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Dutch: aas, kadaver, kreng, lijk
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