Definitions for Clay

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Clay clay

Spelling: [kley]

IPA: /kleɪ/

Clay is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in Clay (acly).

Definitions for Clay

noun

1. a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
2. earth; mud.
3. earth, especially regarded as the material from which the human body was formed.
4. the human body, especially as distinguished from the spirit or soul; the flesh.
5. human character as estimated according to fineness of constitution, endowments, etc.:
6. a lusterless serge having a rough texture.
7. Bertha M (Charlotte Monica Braeme) 1836–84, English author: originator of a long series of romantic novels.
8. Cassius Marcellus, 1810–1903, U.S. antislavery leader and diplomat.
9. Cassius Marcellus, Jr. original name of Muhammad Ali.
10. Henry, 1777–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
11. Lucius (DuBignon) [doo-bin-yon] /ˌdu bɪnˈyɒn/ (Show IPA), 1897–1978, U.S. general.
12. a male given name.

verb (used with object)

1. to treat or mix with clay; cover, daub, or fill with clay.
2. to filter through clay.

Origin of Clay

before 1000; Middle English; Old English clǣg, cognate with Dutch, German Klei, akin to glue

Examples for Clay

This we also burnt with fire, after we had protected the fresh flint by plastering it with clay.

They passed an outdoor oven like a little round hill of stones and clay.

It just changed into something quite dark and unattractive with clay, and was a unique moment in my artistic career.

There was that Twitter rant by Dan Haseltine, lead singer of Jars of clay, supporting gay marriage.

But, together, Webster, clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.

We stuffed the pink dainties with mint, and baked them in balls of clay.

Come, bring thy load, cast it on Him Who fashioned thee from clay.

Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in clay County.

clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.

The fire was burning on a clay floor a few feet from where I was lying.