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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.

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Adobe 76% connected

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

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Argil 76% connected

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

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Daub 76% connected

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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Kaolin 76% connected

Alt. of Kaoline

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Kaoline 76% connected

A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is ch…

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Mire 76% connected

An ant.

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Pipeclay 76% connected

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

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Slop 76% connected

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

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Body 76% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Dirt 76% connected

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of di…

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Soil 76% connected

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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Mud 74% connected

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

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Mud 74% connected

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

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Muddy 74% connected

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

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Muddy 74% connected

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

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Brick 70% connected

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or…

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Pottery 70% connected

The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

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Tile 70% connected

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

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Si 70% connected

A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by L…

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Silicon 70% connected

A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brow…

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Cadaver 92% connected

A dead human body; a corpse.

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Corpse 92% connected

A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.

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Mud 92% connected

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

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Stiff 92% connected

Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.

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