clay (n.)
- acres
- alluvion
- alluvium
- anatomy
- ashes
- blubber
- body
- bones
- breeze
- briar
- butter
- cadaver
- calean
- calumet
- carcass
- carrion
- china
- churchwarden
- clod
- corncob
- corpse
- corpus
- crowbait
- crust
- cushion
- decedent
- dirt
- dough
- down
- dust
- earth
- eiderdown
- enamel
- figure
- fireclay
- fleece
- flesh
- floss
- flue
- fluff
- flux
- foam
- form
- frame
- freehold
- glaze
- glebe
- grassland
- ground
- gumbo
- hominid
- homo
- hookah
- hubble-bubble
- hulk
- humanity
- humankind
- kaolin
- kapok
- land
- lithosphere
- man
- mankind
- marl
- meerschaum
- mire
- mold
- mortality
- muck
- mud
- mummification
- mummy
- nargileh
- ooze
- person
- physique
- pillow
- pipe
- plush
- porcelain
- pudding
- puff
- putty
- refractory
- region
- remains
- rubber
- satin
- silk
- skeleton
- slime
- slip
- slob
- slop
- sludge
- slush
- sod
- soil
- soma
- squash
- stiff
- subsoil
- swill
- terrain
- territory
- thistledown
- topsoil
- torso
- trunk
- velvet
- wax
- woodland
- wool
- zephyr
clay (v.)
Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
The sightless Milton, with his hair
Around his placid temples curled;
And Shakespeare at his side,—a freight,
If clay could think and mind were weight,
For him who bore the world!
This is the porcelain clay of humankind.
The precious porcelain of human clay.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,
And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
A daring pilot in extremity;
Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high
He sought the storms.
Var. By hands unseen the knell is rung;
By fairy forms their dirge is sung.
