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.
Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
To cover or manure with clay.
To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
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Clay Quotations
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Antoine Rivarol
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Pericles
"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
Karl Rove
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.
Tom Selleck
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Muhammad Iqbal
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
John Millington Synge
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
Richard MacDonald
The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
Rebecca H. Davis
Clay Translations
clay in Danish is ler
clay in Dutch is aarden, van klei, klei-
clay in Finnish is savi
clay in French is glaise, argile, tonale
clay in Italian is argilla
clay in Norwegian is leire
clay in Portuguese is argila
clay in Spanish is arcilla
clay in Swedish is lera
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