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Argillo-ferruginous :: Argillo-ferruginous (a.) Containing clay and iron.

Clay :: Clay (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities..

Wedge :: Wedge (v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc..

Barbotine :: Barbotine (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

Capsule :: Capsule (n.) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier..

Earthenware :: Earthenware (n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain..

Temper :: Temper (v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc..

Pipeclay :: Pipeclay (v. t.) To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments..

Porcelainized :: Porcelainized (a.) Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

Bronzing :: Bronzing (n.) The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes..

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..

Earthen :: Earthen (a.) Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe..

Rabat :: Rabat (n.) A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

Crayon :: Crayon (n.) An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders..

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.

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

Brick :: Brick (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp..

Argillite :: Argillite (n.) Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc..

Argoile :: Argoile (n.) Potter's clay.

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