a. ? Obs. [f. CLAY sb. + -ISH.] More or less clayey.
1570. Levins, Manip., 145. Clayish, lutulentus.
1593–5. Norden, Spec. Brit., M’sex., I. 11. The claiesh nature of the soyle.
1653. Walton, Angler, 169. Where the water is of a clayish colour.
1666. G. Harvey, Morb. Angl., 163 (J.). Small Beer … brewed with a thick muddy and clayish water.
1797. Downing, Disorders Horned Cattle, 45. Mixed with a fat clayish substance.
1883. Comte de Paris, Civil War Amer., III. in Athenæum, 10 Nov., 596/2. Amid the mire and rime of the clayish slopes of Stafford County.
