Word Finder - clay

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A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

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An earth material with ductile qualities.

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A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.

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The French Open is played on clay.

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The material of the human body.

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A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

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A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.

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A clay pigeon.

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We went shooting clays at the weekend.

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Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims

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Danzig is rightfully German clay.

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To add clay to, to spread clay onto.

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(of sugar) To purify using clay.

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1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6.

The clay was still hidden.

That was when she noticed the clay on her shirt.

But he saw the clay on her shirt.

He saw that stupid clay spot.

On the higher clay grounds cattle-rearing and horse-breeding are also practised, together with butter and cheese making.

They are generally low, being composed of sand and clay, and lie from 5 to 20 m.

Kaolin, or porcelain clay, although capable of application to commercial purposes, has not as yet been utilized to any extent, although found in several places in New South Wales and in Western Australia.

The total value of all clay products in West Virginia was $3,261,736 in 1908.

The later beds of the island belong to the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary systems. At the western foot of the Ida massif calcareous beds with corals, brachiopods (Rhvnchonella inconstans, &c.) have been found, the fossils indicating the horizon of the Kimmeridge clay.

The Valentine Museum is in a house on Eleventh and Clay Streets, in which Aaron Burr was entertained while he was on trial, and which with $50,000 and his collections was devised to a board of trustees in 1892.

In 1834 James Smith of Deanston promulgated his system of thorough draining and deep ploughing, the adoption of which immeasurably improved the clay lands of the country.

The clay soils of England, Agricul- the latent fertility of which was to be brought into 187 since Y g I sis.

A trench was dug in the soft upper mud until the stratum of stiff blue clay was reached.

The streets are wide and cross at right angles; the houses are generally low and built of clay.

The houses are built of clay with (generally) flat roofs impervious to fire.

Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with coloured schemes, and sometimes bearing moulded decoration.

I.-Lion-Guarded Goddess And Shrine, On A Clay Sealing From Cnossus.

The town and neighbourhood have been long noted for their lime and cement, and large quantities of potters', pipe, fire and other kinds of clay are sent to Staffordshire and to foreign countries.

Considerable trade was carried on with France and Spain, cloth, Purbeck stone and, later, clay being largely exported.

In the neighbourhood of Nottingham, and other places in the Midlands, barytes forms a cementing material in the Triassic sandstones; amber-coloured crystals of the same mineral are found in the fuller's earth at Nutfield in Surrey; and the septarian nodules in London Clay contain crystals of barytes as well as of calcite.

In some cases, however, as for example in the ducal palace itself, if the clay appeared sufficiently firm, the piles were dispensed with and the foundations went up directly from the oak platform which rested immediately on the clay.

The famous Venetian pozzi, or wells for storing rain-water from the roofs and streets, consisted of a closed basin with a water-tight stratum of clay at the bottom, upon which a slab of stone was laid; a brick shaft of radiating bricks laid in a permeable jointing material of clay and sand was then built.

It is deeper and more fertile, however, in the basins of the Great Miami and Little Miami rivers, where there is a liberal mixture of decomposed limestone and where extensive areas with a clay subsoil are covered with alluvial deposits.

North of the lower course of the Maumee river is a belt of sand, but Ohio drift generally contains a large mixture of clay.

Other valuable minerals are clay suitable for making pottery, brick and tile (in 1908 the value of the clay working products was $26,622,490) and sand suitable for making glass.

Clay products rank fifth in the state; they increased in value from $16,480,812 in 1900 to $25,686,870 in 1905.

The soil is composed of red ferruginous kankar, with a stratum of clay in the more elevated parts, covered by a thin layer of vegetable mould, or by recent alluvial deposits.

Clay and " bottom " lands produce a large, leafy plant, yielding less lint in proportion.

The delta soil is typically a heavy, black, alluvial clay, very fertile, but difficult to work; admixture of sand is beneficial, and the localities where this occurs yield the best cotton.

The surrounding country abounds in coal, iron ore, oil, clay, stone and timber, for which the city is a distributing centre.

In Canada, means of transport similar to those already described are employed, but the reservoirs for storage often consist of excavations in the soft Erie clay of the oil district, the sides of which are supported by planks.

Silver Spring and Blue Spring in Marion county, Blue Spring and Orange City Mineral Spring in Volusia county, Chipola Spring near Marianna in Jackson county, Espiritu Santo Spring near Tampa in Hillsboro county, Magnolia Springs in Clay county, Suwanee Springs in Suwanee county, White Sulphur Springs in Hamilton county, the Wekiva Springs in Orange county, and Wakulla Spring, Newport Sulphur Spring and Panacea Mineral Spring in Wakulla county are the most noteworthy.

The boulder clay or " hard pan " of which most of the surface lands are composed, forms a very indifferent support for vegetation, and consequently the state is not well adapted for the growing of crops.

The cuneiform script could only be written on stone or clay.

Many of the springs have curative properties, one of them, the Green Cove Spring in Clay county, discharging about 3000 gallons of sulphuretted water per minute.

Florida is also the principal source in the United States for fuller's earth, a deposit of which, near Quincy, was first discovered in 1893 and clay (including kaolin) is also mined to some extent.

The natural division into dunes, geest grounds, and clay and low fen holds for South as well as for North Holland.

On the clay and low fen cattle-rearing and the making of the Gouda cheeses are the principal occupations.

Brazil's chief industrial importance is due to its situation in the heart of the "Brazil block" coal (so named because it naturally breaks into almost perfect rectangular blocks) and clay and shale region; among its manufactures are mining machinery and tools, boilers, paving and enamelled building bricks, hollow bricks, tiles, conduits, sewer-pipe and pottery.

Other exports are tin and copper, granite, serpentine, vegetables and china clay.

It is in the Vermilion coal region, and clay for brick and tile is abundant in its vicinity.

His great difficulty lay in managing his colleagues, who were, especially Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, able men of strong wills and jarring tempers.

Other minerals found here are graphite, alum, potter's clay and roofing-slate, and, besides, famous silvermines were worked at Iglau during the middle ages.

In the plains the soil is generally of sand or alluvial clay, covered in the valleys with a rich vegetable mould.

Farther inland in the level districts and river bottoms it varies from a sandy to a clay loam containing much alluvium.

On the foothills and in the less rugged mountain districts there is a thin but rich clay soil derived from coral limestone.

Brick clay and limestone are abundant, and there are on the south coast a sand marl rich in phosphates and productive salt deposits.

On the 29th of January 1850 Henry Clay presented the famous resolution which constituted the basis of the ultimate compromise.

Finally, although Clay for his support of the compromises and Seward and Chase for their opposition have gained in reputation, Webster has been selected as the special target for hostile criticism.

The Sumerians cast the heads of their lions in copper, not always with successful results, and filled them with bitumen and clay (like the image in " Bel and the Dragon," which was " clay within and brass without ") to give them solidity.