Synonym: Clay, Henry Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay, cadaver, corpse, mud, remains, stiff, the Great Compromiser. Similar words: class, claim, lay out, play, declare, a class, layer, lay off. Meaning: [kleɪ] n. 1. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired 2. water soaked soil; soft wet earth 3. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978) 4. United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) 5. the dead body of a human being.
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121 These giant worms live in clay soils close to watercourses in the Bass River valley, southeast of Melbourne.
122 Quartz, feldspar, and the clay minerals make up the bulk of that contribution.
123 Margarett takes a fistful of clay and presses it to an armature made of wire and wood.
124 Otherwise a layer of clay particles under the usual fine gravel will suffice.
125 Clay soils, composed of very fine particles,[www.Sentencedict.com] have a much higher affinity for water than silty soils.
126 The Brigadier and the Captain sank their cavalry boots deep into the clay soil and began looking about.
127 When clay particles are in a random arrangement the clay is more likely to crack or warp.
128 It's a unique beauty treatment that uses thermal clay and electrical currents to combat cellulite.
129 To draw a heavy plough through wet clay soil, a pair of oxen, yoked together was used.
130 Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
131 Nothing daunted, the bearers of comfort brought a flagon of ale and a long clay pipe.
132 Of primary importance were the clay pots, so much better suited as containers than the skins and baskets employed by hunters.
133 In that case the sellers had warranted that a clay pulverising machine would process clay at six tons per hour.
134 Their faces were painted with white clay and vermillion and black paint.
135 Guests also can play tennis on red clay courts at a private tennis club.
136 Fired clay, such as pottery and baked mud-brick or adobe(sentencedict.com), is virtually indestructible if well fired.
137 Then he filled his clay pipe with Prince Albert tobacco mixed with mullein weed for his bronchitis and lit it.
138 But most of the surface is covered by a thin sheet of boulder clay.
139 Lime is spread to help to break up heavy wet clay soils.
140 Chemical weathering is of the greatest importance in producing fine material, as clay minerals are formed by this process.
141 I had often wondered why they chose to settle in the thick woodlands on heavy clay.
142 RNA-like molecules, because of their negatively charged backbones, would tend to coat the outsides of clay particles.
143 She found the finest clay, built a web of wires to spread it on, and sat breathless at her bench.
144 If a sand and clay mixture is provided it will produce a dense, bushy plant developing a mass of trailing rootstock.
145 Clay minerals occur in a bewildering variety of forms; only the major groups are listed in Table 6.3.
146 In the last one million years the ice sheets spread a layer of boulder clay across the lowlands.
147 Having painted my face with white clay, they gave me a crystal and a hollow reed.
148 Blagdon supply Bio-Filter Medium high-grade semi porous light clay granules with a large surface area.
149 Standing all day on the wet clay floor under the dropping ceiling in the faint light cast by tallow candles was grim.
150 Cabral looks at the clay and her face comes alive as she begins to shape it.