clay /klā/

1. Earth in very fine particles, tenacious and impervious (agriculture)
2. A tenacious ductile earthy material, hydrated aluminium silicates more or less impure (chem and mineralogy)
3. A prepared hard surface of a tennis court
4. Earth in general
5. The human body
6. A clay pigeon
7. (in full clay pipe) a tobacco pipe of baked clay

To purify (eg sugar) with clay

clayed adjective

Clay-like

clayˈey adjective

1. Made of clay
2. Covered with clay
3. Like clay

clayˈish adjective

Of the nature of clay

claymātˈion noun (film)

The animation of clay or Plasticine figures

clayˈ-bank adjective (US)

Brownish yellow

noun (US)

A horse of this colour

clayˈ-brained adjective (Shakespeare)

Stupid

clayˈ-cold adjective

Cold as clay, lifeless

clay court noun

Clay-covered tennis court

clay eater noun

A person addicted to chewing a fatty clay in Brazil and elsewhere

clayˈ-ground noun

Ground consisting mainly of clay

clay-irˈonstone noun

A clayey chalybite

clayˈ-marl noun

A whitish chalky clay

clayˈ-mill noun

A mill for preparing clay

clay mineral noun

Any of a group of water-soluble aluminium silicates that are the chief constituents of clay

clayˈpan noun

1. A compacted layer of subsoil that retains water
2. A shallow depression in clay soil, holding water after rain (Aust)

clay pigeon noun

(often shortened to clay) a saucer-shaped disc (usu made of pitch and powdered limestone) thrown from a spring-loaded trap and shot at as a substitute for various types of game bird

clayˈ-pit noun

A pit from which clay is dug

clay road noun (NZ)

An unmetalled road

clayˈ-slate noun

Hard, fissile argillaceous rock

feet of clay (figurative)

Faults and weaknesses of character not at first apparent or suspected

wet one's clay

To drink

• bebeerines
• bebeeru
• bebeerus
• be beforehand with
• be better than one's word
• be big on
• be blessed with
• beblubbered
• bebop
• bebopped
• bebopper
• beboppers
• bebopping
• bebops
• be borne in on
• be bound up in
• be bound up with
• be brought to bed
• be brought to bed of
• bebung
• bebungs
• be by way of
• becall
• becalled
• becalling