(a) Potter's clay; any argillaceous earth; clayey soil; pal as ~; drie as ~; walkeres ~, fuller's earth; ded ~, clay cured by baking, burnt clay; quik ~, raw, unburnt clay; werkes of ~ and of tile, the labor of brickmaking; (b) mineral pitch, bitumen; clay, or a compound containing clay, used as mortar or plaster; ~ daubed; (c) ~ gavel, a customary rent for the privilege of digging clay; ~ lond (feld), clayey soil; an area of clayey land; ~ man, a worker in clay; plasterer, dauber; ~ pit, a clay pit; ?a clay deposit; ~ ston, ?brick; med. a calculus or internal concretion; (d) in names.

(a) Mud, mire, dirt, soil, earth, ground; (b) something worthless; (c) fig. uses: creature of ~, mortal man; from under ~, from the grave; clingen (crepen) in ~, be buried, closed under ~, leide (loken) in ~, buried, dead; (d) ~ clot, a lump of dirt; fig. a corpse; ~ hous, mortal life; ~ molde, dirt; claies ground, the grave.