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A mantelpiece.
A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.
To rail at; to scold.
To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.
A flatterer or sycophant.
Flattering; sycophantic.
To flatter.
of Claw
Furnished with claws.
of Claw
Destitute of claws.
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.
Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
To cover or manure with clay.
To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.