clay pigeon | target used in skeet or trapshooting |
clay pipe | a pipe made of clay |
mold mould molding moulding modeling clay sculpture | sculpture produced by molding |
cadaver corpse stiff clay remains | the dead body of a human being, the cadaver was intended for dissection, the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse, the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river, honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay |
glacial boulder | a boulder that has been carried by a glacier to a place far distant from its place of origin |
elder senior | a person who is older than you are |
elder | any of various church officers |
elder statesman | an elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders |
elder statesman | any influential person whose advice is highly respected |
eldest hand elder hand | the card player on the dealer's left |
Agrippina Agrippina the Elder | granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger ( BC - AD ) |
Ali Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay Cassius Marcellus Clay | United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in ) |
Brueghel Breughel Bruegel Pieter Brueghel Pieter Breughel Pieter Bruegel Breughel the Elder Pieter Brueghel the Elder | Flemish painter of landscapes (-) |
Clay Henry Clay the Great Compromiser | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (-) |
Clay Lucius Clay Lucius DuBignon Clay | United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from to and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (-) |
Cosimo de Medici Cosimo the Elder | Italian financier and statesman and friend of the papal court (-) |
Cyrus II Cyrus the Elder Cyrus the Great | king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circ- BC) |
Dionysius Dionysius the Elder | the tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (- BC) |
Edward the Elder | king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (-) |
Frick Henry Clay Frick | United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (-) |
Holbein Hans Holbein Holbein the Elder | German painter of religious works (-) |
Pitt William Pitt First Earl of Chatham Pitt the Elder | English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (-) |
Pliny Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus | Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history, died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (-) |
Scipio Scipio Africanus Scipio Africanus Major Publius Cornelius Scipio Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major Scipio the Elder | Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa - BC) |
Strauss Johann Strauss Strauss the Elder | Austrian composer of waltzes (-) |
bristly sarsaparilla bristly sarsparilla dwarf elder Aralia hispida | bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark |
marsh elder iva | any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers, common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America |
burweed marsh elder false ragweed Iva xanthifolia | tall annual marsh elder common in moist rich soil in central North America that can cause contact dermatitis, produces much pollen that is a major cause of hay fever |
elder elderberry bush | any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit |
American elder black elderberry sweet elder Sambucus canadensis | common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries, fruit used in wines and jellies |
blue elder blue elderberry Sambucus caerulea | shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries, fruit used in wines and jellies |
dwarf elder danewort Sambucus ebulus | dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor |
bourtree black elder common elder elderberry European elder Sambucus nigra | a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia, fruit used for wines and jellies |
American red elder red-berried elder stinking elder Sambucus pubens | common North American shrub or small tree |
European red elder red-berried elder Sambucus racemosa | Eurasian shrub |
box elder ash-leaved maple Acer negundo | common shade tree of eastern and central United States |
California box elder Acer negundo Californicum | maple of the Pacific coast of the United States, fruits are white when mature |
china clay china stone kaolin kaoline porcelain clay terra alba | a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar), used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) |
red clay | clay whose redness results from iron oxide |
residual soil residual clay | the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved |
bleaching clay bleaching earth | an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils |
clay | a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired |
potter's clay potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron, used in making pottery or for modeling |
indurated clay | hardened clay |
mud clay | water soaked soil, soft wet earth |
sedimentary clay | clay soil formed by sedimentary deposits |
till boulder clay | unstratified soil deposited by a glacier, consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together |
Pleistocene Pleistocene epoch Glacial epoch | from two million to thousand years ago, extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere, the time of human evolution |
ice age glacial period glacial epoch | any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface, the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene |
pipe-clay | whiten or clean with pipe-clay, pipe-clay leather |