Meaning

Composed of clay or containing (much) clay; clayish..

Definitions by Sense

1. Composed of clay or containing (much) clay; clayish.
2. Covered or dirtied with clay.
3. Resembling clay; claylike, clayish.
4. (figuratively) Of the human body, as contrasted with the soul; bodily, human, mortal.

Example Sentences

The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea; thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar[-]canes.

I was myself very successful in one beautiful group of insects, the tiger-beetles, which seem more abundant and varied here than anywhere else in the Archipelago. I first met with them on a cutting in the road, where a hard clayey bank was partially overgrown with mosses and small ferns.

She had walked over rotted, decaying, splintered planks covered with clayey soil: […]

Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate, and thus chemically utterly different in composition from the clayey rocks below and the hard, pebbly ones above.

Wheat-fields, one would think, cannot come to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless machinery will do it?

Death, grim Death, will fold / Me, in his leaden Arms, and preſs me cloſe / To his cold clayie Breaſt: […]

This purifing of wit, this enritching of memory, enabling of iudgment, and enlarging of conceyt, which commonly we call learning, […] the final end is, to lead and draw vs to as high a perfection, as our degenerate ſoules made worſe by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of.

[A]mid these tombs, / Cold as their clayey tenants, know, my heart / Must never grow to stone!

Word Forms

• clayier
• clayiest

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