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clayey, a.|ˈkleɪɪ|
Forms: 1 clǽiᵹ, 4 cleȝy, cleyye, cleyi, 6 claieie, 6–8 clayie, 7 claiy, cleyie, 7–8 claiey, 6– clayey.
[f. clay n. + -y1: the e is merely to separate two ys.]
1. Characterized by the presence of clay; full of or abounding in clay; composed of, or of the nature of clay; argillaceous.
1024Cod. Dipl. IV. 31 Of halᵹan wylle west be dic on ða clæian lane. 1382Wyclif 1 Kings vii. 46 In the cleyye erthe [1388 in cleyi lond] betwix Socoht and Sarcham. 1597Pilgr. Parnass. i. 122 To draw his slowe feete ore the clayie lande. 1696Whiston Th. Earth iv. (1722) 312 Earthy, Claiy, Sandy, Gravelly, Stony Strata. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 755 The soil having..become more stiff and clayey. 1865Lyell Elem. Geol. xi. 145 In North Greenland powerful springs of clayey water escape..from under the ice. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 35 The Seven Springs are thrown out from clayey beds which belong to the..Lias.
b. fig. Of ‘mortal clay’: applied to the body (usually as the habitation of the soul).
1581Sidney Apology (Arb.) 29 Degenerate soules made worse by theyr clayey lodgings. 1640T. Carew Poems Wks. (1824) 66 The purest soule that e're was sent Into a clayie tenement. 1795Southey Joan of Arc ix. 191 Amid these tombs Cold as their clayey tenants. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets (1863) 38 To low estate of clayey creature.
2. Coated, smeared, or soiled with clay.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxii. 1 In a cleȝy ston. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1857) I. i. ii. i. 26 Wheat-fields..cannot come to grow untilled; no man made clayey or made weary thereby.
3. Resembling clay; clay-like.
1684H. More Answer 211 They having a Clayey conscience, that would comply and fit it self to any occasion. 1697Congreve Mourning Bride ii. i, Grim death will..press me close To his cold clayey breast. 1771Mackenzie Man Feel. xxvi. (1803) 36 Her lip assumed a clayey whiteness. 1862Thornbury Turner I. 89 Ibbetson took to copying Berghem, in a clear, firm, rather hard manner, with clayey tones. |