Thick clay

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• Clay

  ·vt To cover or manure with clay. II. Clay ·vt To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar. III...

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• Clay

  This word is used of sediment found in pits or in streets (Isa. 57:20; Jer. 38:60), of dust mixed wi...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Clay

  As the sediment of water remaining in pits or in streets, the word is used frequently in the Old Tes...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Thick

  ·adv Frequently; fast; quick. II. Thick ·noun A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. III. Thick ·superl Dee...

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• thick

  Intimate. They are as thick as two inkle-weavers. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• thick

  1) Intimate; familiar. 'They are very thick just now.' Provincial in the North of England, and in Yo...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• thick

  intimate, frequent, plentiful. Also stupid. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Clay-brained

  ·adj <<Stupid>>. ...

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• Pipe clay

  ·- A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, — used in making tobacco pipes and various kin...

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• clay-pan

  n. name given, especially in the dryinterior of Australia, to a slight depression of the groundvary...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ball-clay

  Adhesive strong bottom, brought up by the flukes of the anchors in massy lumps. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pipe-clay

  Known to the ancients under the name of paretonium; formerly indispensable to soldiers as well as th...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Thick wind

  ·- A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the sign...

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• Thick-headed

  ·adj Having a thick skull; stupid. ...

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• Thick-knee

  ·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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• Thick-skinned

  ·adj Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. ...

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• Thick-skulled

  ·adj Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn. ...

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• Thick-winded

  ·adj Affected with thick wind. ...

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• thick stuff

  Sided timber, or naval planks, under one foot, and above 4 inches in thickness. ...

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• thick and thin block

  , or fiddle-block. A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blo...

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• thick-and-dry for weighing!

  To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground. ...

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