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Pug :: Pug (n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

Ceramics :: Ceramics (n.) The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc..

Underlie :: Underlie (v. t.) To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel..

Cobwall :: Cobwall (n.) A wall made of clay mixed with straw.

Sagger :: Sagger (n.) The clay of which such pots or cases are made.

Nonesuch :: Nonesuch (n.) A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc..

Kaoline :: Kaoline (n.) A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar..

Phyllite :: Phyllite (n.) Clay slate; argillaceous schist.

Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc..

Smitt :: Smitt (v. t.) Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep..

Bend :: Bend (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind..

Prian :: Prian (n.) A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles..

Malmbrick :: Malmbrick (n.) A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk..

Cob :: Cob (n.) Clay mixed with straw.

Olla :: Olla (n.) A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay..

Sagger :: Sagger (n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar..

Plaque :: Plaque (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch..

Embed :: Embed (v. t.) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand..

Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..

Pise :: Pise (n.) A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pise work.

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